Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Integration and Policy Planning
Daniel E. White serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Integration and Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In this role, he leads the office that is responsible for providing the Department with an integrated and DHS-wide capability for strategy development, strategic planning, long-term assessment, and decision analysis and provides policy input to departmental budget development and acquisition processes.
Prior to joining DHS, Mr. White was the deputy chief of staff to the 25th Secretary of the Army. He first joined the Biden-Harris Administration as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities where he coordinated on the Department’s strategic reviews. Later, Mr. White was the chief of staff to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserves Affairs, championing human capital policies for the largest military service.
Mr. White began his career as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army, leading soldiers in East Asia, the Middle East, and stateside, culminating as the director of external affairs for the 52nd Field Artillery Commandant.
After leaving the Army as a captain, he completed stints on the security and defense team at the transatlantic think-tank the German Marshall Fund to the United States and the corporate strategy team at Lockheed Martin. Mr. White was a civil servant in the J5 Strategy, Policy, and Plans Directorate at U.S. Southern Command and in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, helping stand up the space division.
A native of New York’s Hudson Valley, Mr. White is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and earned a MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where was assistant editor of the Journal for International Affairs. He is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. White is married to Mrs. Denise Pyfrom White of Princeton, NJ and resides in Washington, D.C.