Craig Basham

Mr. Craig Basham currently serves as the Principal Deputy Executive Director for the Information Technology Operations and oversees the Headquarters Operations Division (HOD), the Enterprise Operations Division (EOD), and the Enterprise Engineering Division (EED) within the Information Technology Operations Directorate (ITOD) at the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer.

In this role, he is responsible for providing secure, reliable, and redundant Information Technology (IT) support to the Department and the Management Directorate, which includes approximately 15,000 personnel located at more than 30 major sites across the National Capital Region and multiple small offices across the country.

Mr. Basham’s divisions also provide direct communications support for travel to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Mr. Basham manages a staff of over 150 federal employees and over eight hundred contractors, with a budget exceeding $400 million annually.

Before joining the OCIO executive leadership team, Mr. Basham was the Division Chief for the ITO’s Enterprise Operations Division. He also worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in both the U.S. Border Patrol and the Office of Information and Technology. In those positions, he helped build strategic alliances with federal agencies, state and local governments, private sector organizations, foreign governments, and international organizations to apply best practices to organizational challenges.

Mr. Basham began his career in 1988, enlisting in the United States Army as an Intelligence Analyst. He was hired into federal government service while in Germany in 2007 and was appointed as a Senior Executive in 2022. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland, University College. He graduated from the Harvard University Senior Executive Fellows, the National Defense University Chief Information Officer, and the American University Key Senior Program Manager certification programs.