Troy E. Johnson is Deputy Executive Director, Domain Awareness Security Operations, Air and Marine Operations (AMO), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at AMO Headquarters in Washington, DC. AMO’s mission is to safeguard our nation by anticipating and confronting security threats through our aviation and maritime law enforcement expertise, innovative capabilities, and partnerships at the border and beyond. AMO has approximately 1,800 federal agents and mission support personnel, over 200 aircraft, and 300 marine vessels operating throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We conduct our mission in the air and maritime environments at and beyond the border and within the nation’s interior.

Deputy Executive Director Johnson previously served as Director, Domain Awareness Standards and Analysis, where he led the installation and integration of mission-essential sensors into AMO’s Domain Awareness architecture while ensuring both data quality and reliability were maintained for operational utility. He also managed the Long-Range Radar Joint Program Office in the sustainment and management of interior and perimeter long-range air search radars that feed the Air and Marine Operations Center.

Deputy Executive Director Johnson has more than 28 years of combined military and law enforcement experience. He began his federal career in 1996 with the U.S. Marine Corps in San Diego, California, as an Air Traffic Controller and served as Facility Radar Branch Chief. He transitioned to a civil servant with the Department of Defense as a Range Control Supervisor, providing 3-dimensional de-confliction for live fire ranges, aviation and maritime training, and ground movement. In 2008, he joined AMO as a Detection Enforcement Officer at the Air and Marine Operations Center in Riverside, California. In 2014, he was selected for an assignment at AMO Headquarters as an Aviation Advisor with Domain Operations and Integration, providing strategy and policy development recommendations to senior leadership efforts to improve detection, collection, and identification of threats to the United States.

Deputy Executive Director Johnson earned a master’s degree in management from the University of Redlands in 2014 and is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations, including a Meritorious Service Medal, Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and several citations.