Mike Uster
Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a Senior Vice President at ManTech.
Achievements
Mr. Uster is a 2020, 2021, and 2022 CIO ORBIE award finalist and was selected to the distinguished list of “Top 100 CIO” by CIO Magazine in 2012.
Top CIOs to Watch in 2020, 2022 and 2024. He was awarded WashingtonExec’s 2024 Chief Officer Award for Chief Information Officer of the Year for Public and Private companies.”
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Mike Uster is the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a Senior Vice President at ManTech.
As CIO/CTO, Mr. Uster directs the enterprise’s managed services, from data centers to collaboration tools to security and implementing new and emerging technologies. ManTech’s Enterprise Information Services organization supports over 14,000 users, including employees, customers, consultants, and subcontractors. In his CTO role, Mr. Uster has embedded a culture of “proven here first” by deploying new solutions and innovative technologies across ManTech. This model has enabled ManTech to provide valuable insights and an enhanced customer experience and deliver mission-driven innovation and capabilities supporting national and homeland security.
Mr. Uster also oversees cybersecurity operations, customer service, application development, and enterprise business management systems across 80 global locations, making ManTech a leader in custom-tailored solutions that innovate, modernize, and transform I.T. for employees and customers. Result: dramatic gains in user experience, satisfaction, and productivity with consistent cost savings contributing to reinvestment in enterprise-wide innovation initiatives.
Mr. Uster joined ManTech in 2005 as a Vice President. He quickly advanced to Senior Vice President in roles spanning the design of business management system solutions, contract and supply chain management, and program management. For over a decade, Mr. Uster led the Enterprise Strategic I.T. Initiatives review, prioritization, and execution process.
In November 2021, Mr. Uster and his team moved the company with more than 14,000 users into a complete zero-trust environment. They leverage this expertise to assist multiple government agencies in their zero-trust journeys. Mike developed a roadmap to improve the enterprise security posture as agencies undergo digital transformation, implement stronger cybersecurity standards, move to secure cloud services within a zero-trust architecture, and deploy multi-factor authentication and encryption.
In his more than 35 years as a government contractor, Mr. Uster has also worked at Northrop Grumman, Lockheed’s “Skunk Works,” the RAND Corporation, TRW, Metric Systems, and Object Sciences Corporation on assignments throughout the United States and in Egypt, Oman, and Turkey. Mike graduated from California’s Biola University with a Bachelor of Art in Modern European History.