Eric Mill
Eric Mill | |
|---|---|
| Executive Director for Cloud Strategy of the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service | |
| Assumed office January 2, 2024 | |
| President | Joseph R. Biden |
| Senior Advisor to the Federal CIO | |
| In office January 21, 2021 – December 31, 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Eric R. Mill June 23, 1984 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Profession | Government Executive, Technologist |
Eric Mill (born June 1984) is an American government technology executive and expert in cybersecurity.[1][2] He currently serves in the Biden Administration at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) as the executive director for Cloud Strategy in GSA's Technology Transformation Services.[3] Previously, he served as a senior advisor to the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States, within the Office of Management and Budget.[4]
Early career
[edit]Mill graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a computer science degree in 2005.[5][6] He worked in a variety of cybersecurity and software development roles, including at digital services firms before jointing the Sunlight Foundation in 2009. While there, Mill developed Scout, a search engine and notification system for U.S. government activity and the "Congress" app for Android, which provided live updates on the people and work of the U.S. Congress.[7][8]
As an open source contributor, Mill was engaged in advocacy in removing the insecure SHA-1 cryptographic hash function from website certificate signatures.[9] From 2014 through the retirement of SHA-1 in 2016, Mill operated a web-based tool to check if a web service's certificate was using the SHA-1 signature algorithm.[10]
Government Service
[edit]Mill joined GSA in 2014 as a member of the then-new 18F digital services agency inside the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).[5][11] In subsequent years, he was named a senior advisor for 18F, and its new parent organization Technology Transformation Services. Mill also served as deputy director of GSA's authentication and sign-on service, Login.gov.[3][1]
In 2019, Eric served on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration’s Democratic staff as a senior technology advisor on election security.[12] In that role, he drafted the DOTGOV Act of 2020 to strengthen the .gov internet domain, which passed as part of the FY20 appropriations bill.[13][14][15] After leaving Congress, Mill worked on the Chrome security team at Google.[16]
Mill joined the Biden Administration in 2021 as a senior advisor to the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Office of Management and Budget.[1][17] He led work on the Federal Zero Trust Strategy, the 2024 FedRAMP Modernization Memo, and managing investments in the Technology Modernization Fund.[3] In January 2024, Mill left OMB took a new position as the executive director for Cloud Strategy in GSA's Technology Transformation Services.[3] In that role, he is overseeing FedRAMP reform along with other cloud security initiatives.[18][19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nihill, Caroline (2024-01-02). "Ex-White House adviser to oversee cloud strategy for GSA's Technology Transformation Services". FedScoop. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Connolly, Deirdre (2022-06-11). "OMB Zero Trust Memo with Eric Mill". Security Cryptography Whatever- Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ a b c d "GSA announces new political appointee". U.S. General Services Administration. 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Eric Mill". www.meritalk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ a b Bennet, Jamie (2024-01-03). "GSA Technology Transformation Services Names Eric Mill Its Executive Director of Cloud Strategy". Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Eric Mill – Workday Federal Forum". Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Eric Mill : Sunlight Foundation". sunlightfoundation.com. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Mill Eric » VoxPopuLII". blog.law.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Fabrizio, Fran (2015-06-01). "Affirmatively Insecure: Chrome and SHA-1 Certificates". ISRDI IT Blog. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Mill, Eric. "SHAAAAAAAAAAAAA | Check your site for weak SHA-1 certificates". SHAAAAAAAAAAAAA.com. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Williams, Matt (2011-07-01). "Feds Creating Mobile Government Model for Agencies". GovTech. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Eric Mill". TechCongress. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "S.2749 - DOTGOV Act of 2019". Congress.gov. 2019-11-06.
- ^ "S. 2749, DOTGOV Online Trust in Government Act of 2019 | Congressional Budget Office". www.cbo.gov. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Pub. L. No. 116-260, §§ 901-07.
- ^ Graham, Edward (2024-01-03). "GSA announces new role to lead cloud strategy, governmentwide tech initiatives". Nextgov.com. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "Intersecting Investments - Cyber and Democracy". Forcepoint. 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ "The future of FedRAMP - The Daily Scoop Podcast". FedScoop. 2024-04-09. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Oakland, Silvia (2024-08-02). "FedRAMP Gets Security, Automation Overhaul in OMB Memo". GovCIO Media & Research. Retrieved 2024-08-31.