APRIL 1, 2025 – A new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy has been appointed at the Pentagon.
Laurie Buckhout, the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, is responsible for establishing DoD cyberspace policy and strategy, providing guidance and oversight on DoD cyberspace activities, and managing DoD’s primary external relationships across the U.S. government, key domestic stakeholders, and our allies and partners.
“I am deeply honored by the President’s trust in me to assist him in his objective to bring Peace through Strength, and I could not be happier to be once again serving my country under our 29th Secretary of Defense, Secretary Hegseth,” said Buckhout. “The Defense Department’s cyber warriors are some of the most powerful force multipliers in our arsenal to deter aggression, secure our borders, and assist our allies in strengthening their own defenses. It’s going to be an exciting and very fulfilling position, and I look forward to standing up with our warfighters to defend our nation.”
Buckhout is a retired Regular Army Colonel with 26 years of world-wide assignments and deployments, including commanding a battalion level task force as part of the initial spearhead attack into Iraq in 2003.
Post-military retirement, she founded her own business, Corvus Consulting, a strategic consulting and services group specializing in Electronic Warfare and Cyberspace Operations.
She is also a past President of the Association of Old Crows, the International Electronic Warfare Association; and served as a Special Government Employee supporting the US Department of Commerce.
She has extensive experience working with Federal and Congressional organizations on legal, budgetary, and legislative matters.
She has been an adjunct professor at National Defense University, the Marine Corps University and George Mason University, lecturing on Cyberspace Operations and Electronic Warfare.
Buckhout started her responsibilities March 17.