Dr. Brian Dillard is MANTECH’s Executive Technical Director for the Space Division.

In this role, he leads technical projects of significant scope and scale, building on his extensive record of achievement over 35+ years in Cyber, Systems Engineering, Human Performance and Cloud within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

Dr. Dillard is a retired US Air Force officer who served for over 20 years as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where he conducted criminal investigations, counterintelligence and force protection operations and cyber analysis.

Dr. Dillard earned an Associate of Science in Criminal Justice from the Community College of the Air Force, a bachelor’s degree in communications from Concordia University Wisconsin, a master’s degree in information systems management, and a Doctor of Management from Webster University.

Dr. Dillard has over 25 years of experience in teaching roles at leading colleges and universities instructing computer science and business areas at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Dillard is a current faculty member of the University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science and retains a faculty position with Webster University George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology graduate studies.

Dr. Dillard is a former member of the Cyber Security Education Board at the University of South Florida. Dr. Dillard is the co-author of Take Your Lead (a book on building a leadership platform for life) and has authored and co-authored numerous papers on Cyber, Cyber Training, SAP Material Destruction, Cloud, Systems Integration and the Risk Management Framework. Dr. Dillard most recently completed a post-doctoral graduate certificate from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Model-Based Systems Engineering and Digital Engineering Environments.