Cindy Farkus
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence
Cindy Farkus became TSA's Assistant Administrator for Intelligence in April 2010. As TSA's senior intelligence officer, she directs the analysis of intelligence associated with the nation's transportation systems.
Farkus joined TSA in December 2007 as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Office of Global Strategies. She became Assistant Administrator of that office in July 2008, working proactively with foreign governments and commercial overseas operations to increase international transportation security.
Farkus is a 29-year veteran of the National Security Agency (NSA), where she guided and directed new NSA organizations to meet their responsibilities and challenges. She served as the Chief of Staff of an NSA operations center in San Antonio; as an Executive Assistant to the Director of NSA; and as a Special U.S. Liaison Officer in Ottawa. From 2005 until her move to TSA, she served as Assistant Deputy Director for Analysis and Production of NSA. In this role, she led a worldwide enterprise providing products and services to military, national and policy-level decision makers.
She served four years in the U.S. Air Force, including an assignment to NSA as a Russian linguist/analyst.
Farkus is a graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County with a bachelor's degree in economics and certificates in accounting and finance. She has completed leadership and change-management courses with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kellogg School of Management and the Center for Creative Leadership.
