Vice Admiral TJ White is a 30-plus year national security practitioner, strategist,
and cyber operations expert leading joint military formations and combined
intelligence community organizations. He has commanded at all levels within
the Navy and Joint Service, most recently as the Commander, United States Fleet
Cyber Command / United States TENTH Fleet / United States Navy Space Command and
previously as the Commander, United States Cyber National Mission Force /
USCYBERCOM. He is a former Director of Intelligence for United States Indo-Pacific
Command and has served globally in various combat zones and conflict areas
supporting competition dynamics. A former CINCPACFLT Shiphandler-of-the-Year,
he misses his days driving a Battleship. He is a 1987 graduate of the United
States Naval Academy and holds additional diplomas from the Naval Postgraduate
School, Naval War College, National Defense University, and myriad professional
education institutions.
As a cyber planner, practitioner, operator, strategist, and leader, he has been
on the tail-end of acquisition, implementation, rollout (training, sustainment -
lifecycle), organizational understanding, and Trust, Technology, Tactics,
Tradecraft, and Procedure uptake. Across key national security sectors of defense,
cyberspace, and space, we are in a race condition, no longer possessing the luxury
of time, distance, and accepted international standards. Collective security and
confident national resiliency will only be found in effective collaboration.