Robert J. Lamb

Bob Lamb, a Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads the firm’s cyber operations business, providing a broad spectrum of support across the cyber operations mission area from policy, doctrine and strategy, through research and development, testing, and acquisition, to operations, training, and implementation. His major clients include the US Cyber Command and its major subordinate commands along with several of the National Cyber Centers.

With extensive experience in the technology, defense, and intelligence industries, Mr. Lamb provides deep understanding and insights to support client requirements in cyber operations, including computer network operations (CNO), computer network defense (CND), computer network attack (CNA), computer network exploitation (CNE), information assurance (IA), and NetOps.

Before joining Booz Allen in 1999, Mr. Lamb served in a variety of command and staff assignments as a Signal Officer in the US Army. He concluded his military career as the Chief of Staff for the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), and was part of the task force that developed the Department of Defense command focused on defending its computer networks and information systems, which today has evolved to the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).

Prior to his assignment to the JTF-CND, Mr. Lamb commanded the 41st Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade in the Republic of South Korea and while stationed in the Republic of Panama, served as both the Operations Officer and Executive Officer with the 154th Signal Battalion. Other career highlights included two assignments at the US Military Academy (USMA), West Point, as a Company Tactical Officer and later as a Special Assistant to the Commandant of Cadets, and company command of the 521st Signal Company, 86th Signal Battalion in Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

Mr. Lamb is a frequent speaker and conference panelist on cybersecurity and cyber operations, especially on ways that organizations can take a more comprehensive approach to cybersecurity.

He is a member of the West Point Association of Graduates (AOG), Association of the US Army (AUSA), the Signal Corps Regimental Association (SCRA), and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

He has a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina and a B.S. in General Engineering from the USMA. He is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff Course at Fort Leavenworth.

profile updated November 2011