Billy Bob Brown, Jr.

Billy Bob Brown, Jr., serves as the Executive Assistant Director for Emergency Communications within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since Oct 12, 2020. In this capacity, AD Brown is one of three CISA-designated Executive Sponsors, as identified in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act of 2018. Brown most recently served as the Associate Director of, the Priority Telecom Services Sub-Division as well as the Program Manager for both the DHS Level 2 Program Next Generation Networks Priority Services Program and the Level 3 Program Priority Telecommunications Services Program. In this role, he was responsible for providing priority telecommunications services over commercial networks to enable national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) personnel to communicate during congestion scenarios across the nation.

Previous to this assignment, he served as the Chief Administrative Officer, of the Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) and worked with a team to develop, coordinate, and implement a Resources Management for OEC that provides fiscal planning, programming, budgeting, and execution across the five-year Future Years Homeland Security Program. It also provides integrated facilities planning with human resource and staffing planning, and property management planning to ensure successful resourcing of OEC efforts to unify the entire emergency communications community.