Steve Pitcher

Senior Cyber Survivability Analyst
Joint Staff J6

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Mr. Steve Pitcher is the Senior Cyber Survivability Analyst for the Joint Staff J6. During Steve’s 20 years in the Air Force, and 18 years as a government civilian with the Missile Defense Agency and Joint Staff, he has held several cybersecurity, command and control, modeling and simulation, information sharing, Joint/Coalition operations, and cyber survivability positions. As part of the Joint Staff, he focused on developing cybersecurity approaches to enable coalition interoperability, with authoritative data services and web-based presentation applications to rapidly deploy a hybrid mission planning and execution network. More recently, he has worked to define how properly articulated cyber survivability threshold performance requirements can reduce resource and mission risk for the acquisition of warfighter systems, by ensuring cybersecurity and cyber resilience requirements are balanced with the system’s other functional requirements during operational risk trade-space decisions. Steve holds a B.S. in computer science and math from the University of Puget Sound and an M.B.A. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is also a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College and Air War College, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

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