Steven Cash

Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis Executive Director, Intelligence Enterprise Program Office

Office of Intelligence & Analysis

Steven Cash joined the Office of Intelligence & Analysis as Senior Advisor to the Under
Secretary on November 6, 2022. In addition to serving a Senior Advisor, he is the Acting
Executive Director of the Intelligence Enterprise Program Office, which manages the
Department-wide intelligence program, and assists the Under Secretary in his role as the
Department’s Chief Intelligence Officer.
Mr. Cash began his career in local law enforcement, serving in the Manhattan District Attorney’s
Office prosecuting street crime and industry-wide corruption. He joined the Central Intelligence
Agency in 1994 as an assistant general counsel, focusing on the interaction between CIA and law
enforcement, particularly in terrorism matters. In 1996 he transferred to CIA’s Directorate of
Operations, serving as a headquarters-based operations officer. His work in operations involved
counterterrorism, counterproliferation and special operations, as well as counterintelligence
responsibilities. He was awarded the CIA’s Medal of Merit for his work on a sensitive project.
In 2001, Mr. Cash joined the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
where he served as the lead counterterrorism staffer, counsel, and designee staffer for Senator
Dianne Feinstein of California. He worked on post-9/11 legislation, such as the establishment of
the Director of National Intelligence, the USA-Patriot Act, and creation the Department of
Homeland Security, including the provisions which established what is now the Intelligence and
Analysis office. His portfolio included the U.S. Coast Guard during the period when it became a
member of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Mr. Cash left the Senate committee in 2003 to serve as the first minority staff director for the
newly established Select Committee on Homeland Security in the House of Representatives. He
then served as chief of staff for the Office of Intelligence at the Department of Energy. He later
returned to the Senate, where he was the chief counsel and minority staff director for the
Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology & Homeland Security. In that
position he worked closely with state and local law enforcement on homeland security, terrorism
and gang issues.
Mr. Cash entered the private sector in 2006 as a consultant focusing on intelligence issues,
particularly those at the intersection of technology, intelligence, national security, and homeland
security. Much of his recent work has focused on counterintelligence issues confronting sensitive
U.S. domestic assets. He also served as co-vice-chair of the Biological Sciences Experts Group
(BSEG), an outside advisory panel established under the authority of the Director of National
Intelligence.
Most recently Mr. Cash practiced white-collar, litigation and national security law at the Day
Pitney law firm. While at Day Pitney, he served his co-chair of the Bar of the District of

Columbia’s National Security Law Committee and as pro bono general counsel for the
International Spy Museum.
Mr. Cash is a graduate of Vassar College and Yale Law School. He lives in Cabin John,
Maryland, and is married to Lisan Martin, a psychotherapist in private practice.

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