Texas A&M University Computer Science and Engineering former student, Will Hurd, has been elected to the United States Congress.
Hurd, originally from San Antonio, received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M in 2000. During his time here he served as Student Body President and President of the Student Union.
He served for almost 10 years as an undercover officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. There he worked with some of our nation’s most important national security issues leading intelligence operations on counterterrorism, cybersecurity and other critical threats. The majority of his career with the CIA was spent overseas in South Asia and the Middle East where he was tasked to recruit foreign assets, collection and dissemination of intelligence in support of the President and senior government policymaker’s national security decision making.
Hurd is the Republican Representative for Congressional District 23 and currently serves as Chairman of the Information Technology Subcommittee for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee’s primary responsibility is to oversee the Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Hurd gave his very first Muster speech as student body president the year the Aggie Bonfire collapsed. This year he took the stage once more as the main speaker.
Dr. Nancy Amato, member of the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors and Unocal Professor, met with Hurd’s office as part of the CRA Congressional visit this past February to talk about the importance of federal funding for computing research.