Tom Ducker is the Commander of the California State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) within the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), Homeland Security Division. As California’s designated fusion center, the STAC supports statewide threat awareness, information sharing, and infrastructure protection across a network that includes five additional regional fusion centers. Tom began his support to California’s critical infrastructure protection mission in 2007, serving as a team lead for the state’s Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) program. in 2015 the program moved to the STAC, and until his appointment as Commander in 2026, Tom supervised the STAC Critical Infrastructure Protection Unit. Before his civilian service, Tom served 23 years in U.S. Army intelligence, working signals and human intelligence missions for multiple agencies and major commands. He also inspected foreign military facilities under international treaty agreements as part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the On-Site Inspection Agency. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Military History from Norwich University. (The California State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) is the centerpiece of the State's information sharing environment (ISE), and provides for the State's subsequent ability to maintain situational awareness over its broad threat domains in an effort to prevent and mitigate the threats against the lives and property of its citizens. The STAC provides strategic intelligence analysis to statewide leadership, policy makers and private sector partners. The analysis is focused on the terrorist and extremist threats to the public, critical infrastructure, and key resources; and criminal threats to the public welfare from drug trafficking organizations, human smugglers and traffickers, and street gangs.)