Steve Recca
Director, Center for Homeland Security
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Mr. Recca has held a wide variety of national security positions in the federal government, private sector, and academia. His previous positions include security policy assignments with the Central Intelligence Agency, State Department and Department of Defense. In the mid-1990s, Steve served as Special Assistant both to the Secretary of the Navy and Director of Central Intelligence. He held the Inman Intelligence Chair at the Naval Postgraduate School, before returning to Europe to serve as DOD’s Chief Liaison to the German Federal Intelligence Service. Most recently, Steve worked policy planning and technology issues in support of interagency coordination as a consultant to United States Northern Command.
Mr. Recca currently serves as the Director of the Center for Homeland Security (CHS) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The Center operates in partnership with U.S. Northern Command for homeland defense and civil security education, training, and research. In addition, CHS collaborates with other federal agencies, as well as national, state and regional industry and institutional partners to deliver homeland defense/security training, education and research. In 2008, the Center was selected as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence program, and by the Department of Defense to develop and deliver the first Seminar in Transatlantic Civil Security for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.