The former CIO and deputy assistant attorney general for information resources at the Justice Department has taken over as the new CIO at DHS.
Luke McCormack will be tasked with driving the department’s effort to implement IT enhancements and strengthen security. According to a recent inspector general report, he will have his work cut out for him. Among the IG’s findings were that many of the department’s own internal systems lacked basic security configurations.
Prior to the Justice Department McCormack served as the CIO of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he held several other senior homeland security IT management positions from 1999 – 2012 including in Customs and Border Protection and its legacy agency US Customs, according to DHS.
The department noted that McCormack (a two-time Fed 100 award winner, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive and a DHS Secretary’s Silver Medal) has also held management roles in the private sector with MCI and Ford Aerospace.
