Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Liu
Executive Officer, Cryptologic Warfare Activity (CWA) 67
19 March 2025
Lt. Cmdr. Liu is a native of California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from University of California, San Diego, and a master’s degree in Astronautical Engineering from Naval Postgraduate School. He enlisted in Navy as an Electronic Technician in 2008. His first command was USS Antietam (CG- 54) based in San Diego where he served as Command Aloft Program Coordinator, assistant Command DAPA, and a Combat System Officer of the Watch on a west Pacific deployment to conduct hull swap with USS Cowpens (CG-63) in Yokosuka, Japan. He advanced to Electronic Technician First Class and received his commissioning to become a Cyber Warfare Engineer (1840) officer in 2013.
Lt. Cmdr. Liu was commissioned through Officer Development School at Newport, R.I. His first command as an officer was at NIOC Maryland as a Division Officer at Adelphi Research Lab, Battle Watch Captain at Fleet Information Operation Center Maryland, and as a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst at NSA / CSS Red Team Research & Development. He then served at Naval Cyber Warfare Development Group as the Cyber National Mission Force 02 NST Development Team Lead, NSA / CSS Adjunct Faculty, and acquisition project officer of the Cyber Mission Force developers for USCYBERCOM. Lt. Cmdr. Liu lateral transferred to become an Information Professional (IP) officer in 2017 and earned his Certified Information Security System Professional qualification in 2018.
After becoming an IP officer, Lt. Cmdr. Liu served at Carrier Strike Group FOUR as the Staff Cyber Officer and Echelon III ISSM. He attained the Information Warfare Tactics Instructor qualification in 2022 and completed his milestone as the Director of Operations (N3) at NAVCOMTELSTA Bahrain during the Israel-Palestinian conflict from 2023 to 2024. Lt. Cmdr. Liu served at DoN CIO and DUSN (M) in Pentagon from 2024-2025 and reported as the Executive Officer at Cryptologic Warfare Activity SIXTY-SEVEN in March 2025.
Lt. Cmdr. Liu’s personal decoration includes the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (three awards). He was awarded Sailor of the Year on board USS Antietam in 2012, Military Performer of the Quarter at Cyber National Mission Force in Spring 2018, Outstanding Thesis from Naval Postgraduate School in 2020, and published his research at IEEE (EuRAD) in 2021.