Joe Heaps - Deputy Chief, Information & Sensor Technologies Division; Manager, Communications Technology Portfolio, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs

Biography
Joseph Heaps is the Deputy Chief of the Information and Sensor Technologies Division and the Communications Technology (CommTech) Portfolio Manager at the National Institute of Justice. Prior to NIJ, Mr. Heaps was Vice President of Business Development at AstroVision International, a commercial satellite company. Mr. Heaps was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Federal Communications Commission, where he advised three FCC Chairman and served as a United States delegate to the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-2000) in Istanbul and (WRC-97) in Geneva, Switzerland.  Prior to FCC, Mr. Heaps worked in Portfolio Management at T. Rowe Price Associates and served eight years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as an Aviator and in Systems Acquisition in the Space and Electronic Warfare Community. 

Mr. Heaps holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University.  Mr. Heaps is a member of the Board of the Benedictine Education Assistance Community Outreach to Neighbors and Treasurer of the Market Square West Condominium Association. Mr. Heaps is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Heaps completed the USDA Graduate School’s Executive Leadership Program.