CAPT Sean R.
Heritage, USN
CAPT Sean R. Heritage, USN
Commanding Officer, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command and
Commander Task Force 1020
Captain Heritage, a native of Pleasanton, California, entered the U.S. Navy as a member of the Naval Academy’s Class of 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He assumed his present duties as Commanding Officer Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command and Commander Task Force 1020 in August 2015. Most recently, he served at United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) where he was the Director of Exercises, Training and Readiness and later the Executive Assistant to Commander, USCYBERCOM and Director, National Security Agency.
Between 2010 and 2012, he served as the Commanding Officer of Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Pensacola. As the Total Force Information Dominance Corps (IDC) and Information Warfare Officer Community Manager from 2008 to 2010, among other strategic initiatives, he led the team that created the Cyber Warfare Engineer and Cyber Warrant Officer designators, as well as the formalization of the collaborative IDC governance model. As Information Warfare Community Strategy and Policy Director for the Cyber Type Commander, he led numerous aspects of both development and implementation of the Human Capital Strategy across the three Information Warfare Officer designators and all five cryptologic technician ratings.
Captain Heritage earned Masters of Science degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the Naval War College in the fields of Information Technology Management and National Security Studies, respectively.
Captain Heritage and his wife, Marianne, are the proud parents of one son, Barrett.
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