| Office: | Executive Director for Cloud Strategy of the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service |
| President: | Joseph R. Biden |
| Term Start: | January 2, 2024 |
| Office2: | Senior Advisor to the Federal CIO |
| Term Start2: | January 21, 2021 |
| Term End2: | December 31, 2023 |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1984 |
| Birthname: | Eric R. Mill |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Profession: | Government Executive, Technologist |
Eric Mill (born June 1984) is an American government technology executive and expert in cybersecurity.[1] [2] He currently serves in the Biden Administration at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) as the executive director for Cloud Strategy in GSA's Technology Transformation Services.[3] Previously, he served as a senior advisor to the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States, within the Office of Management and Budget.[4]
Mill graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a computer science degree in 2005.[5] [6] He worked in a variety of cybersecurity and software development roles, including at digital services firms before jointing the Sunlight Foundation in 2009. While there, Mill developed Scout, a search engine and notification system for U.S. government activity and the "Congress" app for Android, which provided live updates on the people and work of the U.S. Congress.[7] [8]
As an open source contributor, Mill was engaged in advocacy in removing the insecure SHA-1 cryptographic hash function from website certificate signatures.[9] From 2014 through the retirement of SHA-1 in 2016, Mill operated a web-based tool to check if a web service's certificate was using the SHA-1 signature algorithm.[10]
Mill joined GSA in 2014 as a member of the then-new 18F digital services agency inside the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).[11] In subsequent years, he was named a senior advisor for 18F, and its new parent organization Technology Transformation Services. Mill also served as deputy director of GSA's authentication and sign-on service, Login.gov.
In 2019, Eric served on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration’s Democratic staff as a senior technology advisor on election security.[12] In that role, he drafted the DOTGOV Act of 2020 to strengthen the .gov internet domain, which passed as part of the FY20 appropriations bill.[13] [14] [15] After leaving Congress, Mill worked on the Chrome security team at Google.[16]
Mill joined the Biden Administration in 2021 as a senior advisor to the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Office of Management and Budget.[17] He led work on the Federal Zero Trust Strategy, the 2024 FedRAMP Modernization Memo, and managing investments in the Technology Modernization Fund. In January 2024, Mill left OMB took a new position as the executive director for Cloud Strategy in GSA's Technology Transformation Services. In that role, he is overseeing FedRAMP reform along with other cloud security initiatives.[18] [19]