Tim Schaad is the Vice President & Technical Director for ManTech’s Federal Civilian Sector. He leads the development and implementation of ManTech’s strategic innovation initiatives for federal civilian agencies. He brings a broad technical and business background to his role, including instructional systems design, security engineering, cyber engineering, systems integration and implementation, cross domain solutions, and web development. Mr. Schaad has more than 20 years of technical and leadership experience, which has led to numerous business successes for the company. These include the design of ManTech’s original Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, and design of the U.S. Marine Corps Cyber Range (MCCR) and the Cyber Training and Evaluation Platform (CTEP) within the DoD Cyber Security Range (CSR), which conducts nearly 200 cyber testing, training and exercise events each year. In 2017, he launched the company’s flagship ACRE® cyber range to deliver military-grade cyber range capabilities to federal civilian and commercial markets. He has spoken at commercial, government and military cyber conferences on best practices and current trends in cybersecurity and cyber training. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schaad served as a Security Engineer for eXMeritus Software Federal Systems and as a Senior Analyst for Gannett Newspapers.1105 Media honored Mr. Schaad with a 2018 Government Industry Innovator award for his work with ManTech’s Cyber Range. In his spare time, he volunteers with the Chantilly Youth Association’s Recreational Soccer League. He holds an MBA from Ashford University and a Bachelor of Arts in English language and literature from The College of William and Mary.