Mr. Daniel J. Schmidt is Computer Scientist serving as the Technical Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) Vulnerability Analysis and Operations (VAO) Engineering and Integration Division. Mr. Schmidt spent 20 years as a Cryptologist while serving in the United States Navy from 1980 – 2000. Upon retirement from the United States Navy, Mr. Schmidt immediately transitioned to NSA as a federal government employee.

During his time with NSA Mr. Schmidt has performed in a variety of technical leadership roles. The focus has been on the design and development of information technology based systems with a special emphasis on large scale, high volume data and information management and automation.