Speaker detail
Jason STEWART
Deputy Branch Chief
Mr. Jason Stewart has served as the Deputy Branch Chief since April 2021, for the Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Strategy, Integration, and Communications Branch at the Office for Bombing Prevention, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In that capacity, he leads and assists in implementing National C-IED policy, which is articulated through Presidential Policy Directive 17: Countering IEDs.
Prior to joining CISA, Mr. Stewart supported the Department of Justice and Department of Defense as a subject matter expert in C-IED and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD). He supported development of interagency C-IED policy and doctrine, as well as North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) C-IED and EOD standards.
Mr. Stewart is retired from active-duty military service as an U.S. Army EOD Officer, with experience in logistics. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the U.S. Army Europe Munitions Branch Chief, where he supervised the planning and management of ammunition operations supporting three combatant commands. He has supported military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times. Mr. Stewart has served as the advisor to the Iraqi Federal Police EOD Directorate and the Afghan Army’s Ground Forces Command C-IED Section. In each instance, he advised and assisted the fledging organization to improve capability and capacity. He has served as an action officer at multiple headquarter levels. While assigned to Headquarters Department of the Army, G-3/5/7, he developed and coordinated policy for U.S. Army EOD to use electronic countermeasures within the continental U.S. and championed the Army’s adoption of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Information Management System. He was handpicked to serve as the U.S. Army’s National Training Center’s EOD Company Observer Controller. While there, he was selected three times as the Observer Controller of the rotation.
Mr. Stewart has a Master’s in Project Management from Georgetown University and has received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is a graduate of the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal school and holds the EOD master badge.
Mr. Stewart has a Master’s in Project Management from Georgetown University and has received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is a graduate of the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal school and holds the EOD master badge.