Wayne Austad

Chief Technology Officer

Idaho National Laboratory

Wayne has worked at INL for over 32 years building and executing impactful national security programs. As CTO for National & Homeland Security Directorate he:

1) Acts as Chief R&D Officer for Manufacturing USA’s CyManII institute to create economically viable and pervasive cybersecurity in the manufacturing automation and supply chain;

2) Leads INL’s Secure & Resilient Cyber Physical Systems initiative to formalize and scale the science and practice of Cyber-Informed Engineering for infrastructure resilience;

3) Provides leadership and strategy for cooperative R&D, infrastructure, and innovation partnerships needed to launch initiatives that address national challenges. Previously, Wayne led efforts to build INL’s Cybercore Integration Center and create an enduring cybersecurity innovation hub across government, industry, and academia for the nation's critical control systems.