Matthew Travis

Travis graduated from the University of Notre Dame and joined the U.S. Navy in 1991 as an active duty officer.^[7] Travis served aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52) as the Engineering Auxiliaries Officer as well as the maritime interdiction boarding officer in the Northern Red Sea following Operation Desert Storm.^[7]

Upon leaving military service in 1998, Travis began a career in government consulting.^[2] He built the Homeland Security team at DFI before its merger with Detica and following the firm's acquisition by BAE Systems.^[8][9] In 2010, Travis co-founded Obsidian Analysis,^[10] a homeland security consulting firm, which was acquired by Cadmus in 2016.^[11]

Travis joined the Trump Administration as Deputy Under Secretary for DHS' NPPD in March 2018.^[6] In November 2018, Congress passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, creating CISA as a component of DHS and elevating NPPD into CISA.^[12] Travis served as the Deputy Director of that new agency,^[13] until the White House pressured him to resign on November 17, 2020.^[14]