Steven Willoughby (invited, pending agency approval)

Steven A. Willoughby currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security’s Counter-UAS Program Office, where he focuses on strategic planning for air domain awareness, threat discrimination, threat mitigation, and interagency information sharing. Steve previously served as the Director for Aviation and Surface Transportation for the White House’s National Security Council where he advised leadership and coordinated multiple interagency workgroups on various issues including unmanned systems, international transport agreements, and incident response. Prior to these roles, Steve worked for the Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Inspection, conducting red team vulnerability assessments across the transportation sector, and for TSA’s Office of Security Operations, supporting the National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program. Steve began his federal career as a Transportation Security Officer at Washington-Dulles International Airport after graduating from Florida Atlantic University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.