Michael Wertheimer

Michael Wertheimer
Wertheimer's Government Executive portrait
Born	February 6, 1957
Nationality	United States
Other names	The Liberator
Occupation	Government Executive
Known for	Founding A-Space; Intelligence reform
Successor	John Miller
Awards	CryptoMathematics Institute President’s Award, Sir Peter Marychurch Award (NSA/GCHQ cryptology award), the NSA Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award, and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award
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Prior to this appointment, Wertheimer spent two years in industry building a research group focused on the intelligence community. From 1982 to 2003 he was a cryptologic mathematician at the National Security Agency. In 1999 he was selected as Technical Director for the Data Acquisition Office in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate. He is the co-author of the 2001 Signals Intelligence Strategy and the 2002 SIGINT architecture model.

Wertheimer returned to the National Security Agency in June 2009 and in the June 2010 became its current Director for Research.

In 2014 he retired from the NSA and now works at the University of Maryland.

Wertheimer received B.A. degrees in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Rochester. He also received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Wertheimer married Christina Grot on May 16, 1993. They have two children Daniel, born on May 13, 1996, and Marissa, born on November 17, 1993.