Rick Miner
Acting Assistant Chief Information Officer for Satellites
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Rick Miner is the Acting Assistant Chief Information Officer for Satellites at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), where he provides executive leadership over IT governance, cloud strategy, radio frequency spectrum management, and enterprise cybersecurity for mission-critical satellite systems. He brings nearly two decades of federal IT and cybersecurity experience driving key initiatives in Zero Trust security architecture, emerging technology adoption, cloud data dissemination, and IT infrastructure modernization. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Information Technology and Security Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
