Technology/Security/National Security Applications/Identity Management/Credentialing and Cybersecurity

Frank A. S. Campbell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Highland Strategies, LLC, a firm providing strategic consulting services on the use of information and new technologies to enhance public safety and homeland security. He helps match client capabilities with federal and state programs and develops proposals with creative solutions, particularly in the areas of background screening/investigations, identity management and credentialing, and cybersecurity. Also provides government relations services in these areas to businesses and industry groups on legislative initiatives and regulatory issues.

Frank served for nearly a decade as a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Senior Counsel in the DOJ Office of Legal Policy (OLP), after serving 5 years as an Assistant General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While in government, he played a key role in developing policy initiatives, programs, and legislation relating to background screening, identity management using biometrics, counterterrorism and information sharing, and the development and use of enhanced forensic technologies by law enforcement, including fingerprinting, DNA, and ballistics. At OLP Frank also helped vet Federal judicial candidates. 

Frank is a leading U.S. expert on background screening, due diligence investigations, identity management, and risk intelligence. He is regarded as the architect of the National Instant Check System (NICS), the background check system for gun buyers operated by the FBI under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. He provided legal and policy guidance on the security, privacy, and dissemination of information in the FBI's national criminal history record system for employment and licensing purposes, serving from 2001-2008 as the DOJ advisor to the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council. He served as an expert witness on background investigations in legislative hearings and court cases. Frank assisted White House efforts to define government-wide approaches to using biometrics to enhance identification in law enforcement and national security applications, including the Presidential Directives titled “Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security.” He also worked on legislation, regulations, and grant initiatives supporting the further development and expansion of the FBI’s DNA Index System.

Education

• B.A. Lafayette College

• J.D. The George Washington