Dereck Orr

Dereck Orr has been the Division Chief of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) since 2002. Prior to working at NIST, Dereck served as a professional staff member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and Related Agencies under Senator Fritz Hollings. Prior to that, Dereck served four years at the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at the Department of Justice. Dereck received a master's degree in public policy from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the University of Texas at Austin.