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Steven A. Cash is the Executive Director of The Steady State, a non-profit advocacy organization who members are former senior national security officials, drawn from across the intelligence, diplomatic, homeland security and defense communities. The Steady State focuses on supporting an effective national security enterprise within a constitutional, rule-of-law, democracy.

Cash most recently served in government at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis. At I&A he served as Senior Advisor to Under Secretary Ken Wainstein; he concurrently served Deputy Chief Intelligence Officer and Acting Executive Director of the Intelligence Enterprise Program Office, which manages the Department-wide intelligence program, and assisted the Under Secretary in his role as the Department’s Chief Intelligence Officer.

Cash began his career in local law enforcement, serving in the Manhattan district attorney prosecuting street crime and industry-wide corruption. He joined the CIA 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, 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 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the USA-Patriot Act, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, including the provisions which established what is now the Intelligence and Analysis office. 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 U.S. 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 terrorism and gang issues. 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. He later joined the law firm Day Pitney, where he was Counsel.

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; an outside advisory panel established under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. Cash is a graduate of Vassar College and Yale Law School.