Mr. Craig is a seasoned Senior Executive adept in leadership, technology, and process innovation as well as high level security and threat mitigation spanning four decades. Highly qualified with a diverse industry background, and extensive expertise in contraband interdiction, Mr. Craig has worked with and consulted to the highest levels of the US Federal Government with the highest levels of security clearance, as well as large Multi-National Corporations, State Agencies, and others.
Mr. Craig has dedicated his entire professional career to public safety, recently retiring after 35 years of service to Federal and State levels of government. His achievement of becoming the Acting Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Chief of Security in part is a result of an uncompromising security-focused mindset. As Assistant Director for the Information Technology and Data Division, Mr. Craig developed, secured funding and executed major IT infrastructure projects for the agency: 50 institutions upgrading to single mode fiber backbone; reorganization of IT field staff for streamlined chain of command and efficiency; development, secured funding and executed upgrade of the video surveillance system at over 50 institutions from analog to digital cameras new generation video management systems, enhanced storage and investigative analytics, including significant contributions to the 2021 Prison Camera Reform Act enacted into law by Congress and DOJ budgetary requests necessary to accomplish this mission-critical security initiative.
Derived from his expertise in countering security threats, Mr. Craig has provided highly successful threat interdiction programs through a combination of risk assessment, effective utilization of security-based technology counter measures, multi-agency-technology alignment, and team building that all serve to protect staff, offenders, and infrastructure. In an ever-evolving landscape of global threat, security needs have never been so important and necessary for ongoing business growth, safety, and peace of mind.
While working with both government and private industry for 35 years, Mr. Craig has served in various positions starting first as a Probation and Parole Officer with the State of Florida. Later moving onto higher levels of responsibility within State and Federal agencies, Mr. Craig served in various Federal roles including Chief Public Information Officer, Associate Warden, Warden, Senior Warden, and most recently retiring as Chief of Security and Technology, and the Acting Assistant Director for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
While working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mr. Craig developed and deployed the first nationwide contraband interdiction system for the BOP, implementing a multi-layered security defense model, which combined full body imaging scanners, a sophisticated and sensitive network of walkthrough metal detectors, packaging pallet X-ray scanners, ion spectrometry devices, counter-UAS systems, synthetic and opioid drug detection/digital mail scanning, facial recognition and contraband cellphone interdiction technologies. In addition to providing the structure of a national common operating picture, Mr. Craig implemented a robust contraband identification staff response protocol, and successful interdiction program which included a substantial staff safety initiative.
In the years leading up to 2018, Mr. Craig was also one of the chief architects and key witness/subject matter experts for the DOJ that resulted in the passage of the Emerging Threats Act of 2018, the first counter UAS authorization law to give legal authority to the DOJ to both detect and mitigate drones. As a result, he was also able to conduct the first major CUAS USG detection and mitigation test. Mr. Craig then developed and deployed the BOP counter UAS program, which has resulted in national accolades, multiple successful criminal indictments of threat and contraband smuggling operations, measured increases of institutional security, as well as enhanced staff and inmate safety. Mr. Craig is an active consultant with Federal, State, and local correctional law enforcement agencies on contraband interdiction, including counter UAS systems, contraband cell phone interdiction and synthetic drug interception techniques to name a few.
Mr. Craig has also testified on a myriad of contraband interdiction issues before the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement, given sensitive briefings to Main Justice (the DOJ in Washington DC), the Executive Office of the President of the United States, US House and Senate oversight and appropriations committees as well as for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was also instrumental in crafting the 2010 Contraband Cell Phone Act and the 2021 Prison Camera Reform Act. Mr. Craig is a nationally published author, conference guest lecturer, podcast guest personality for law enforcement subject matters, and is a recognized, subject matter expert on contraband interdiction theory, techniques, policy, and practice for the law enforcement/corrections communities as well as private corporations that have legitimate security concerns.
Mr. Craig holds two distinguished master’s degrees, including a master’s in public administration from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Arts in Criminology from the University of South Florida. Mr. Craig also holds the distinct designation of a Certified Protection Professional through the American Society for Industrial Security. In 2018, Mr. Craig was also honored as the recipient of the U.S. Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award as well as the Director’s Special Recognition Award from the US Federal Bureau of Prisons.
