Mr. Lionel “Lee” Maynard leads the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s cybersecurity operations including the NASA Security Operations Center and Cybersecurity Incident Response Team whose combined mission functions as the 24/7/365 nerve center for all cybersecurity incident monitoring, detection, prevention, response, mitigation, reporting, and cyber threat analysis for NASA’s enterprise. He oversees multiple distributed security operation sites and the agency’s cybersecurity incident response team positioned at twelve NASA operating locations providing incident response services to the NASA enterprise.

Prior to joining NASA, Mr. Maynard has spent 33+ years of government service within the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and NASA. His service includes 22+ years in the United States Air Force retiring as a Cyber Officer; 1 year as the Senior Information Assurance Security Engineer for the Air Force Distributed Ground System; 3 years directing Information Operations product development and integration within the Information Operations Joint Management Office, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence; and 5 years as the Deputy Director and 2 years as the Director, Command, Control, Communications, Cyber and Chief Information Officer for the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command.