On December 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was named the executive agent to establish and operate the Program Management Office (PMO) for the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI), taking on responsibility for coordinating existing resources and managing additional support to further develop and deploy the NSI.
In March 2010, a PMO was established within the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to facilitate the implementation of the NSI across all levels of government. The core mission of the PMO is to assist agencies with adopting compatible processes, policies, and standards that foster broader sharing of SARs, while ensuring that privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties are protected. Primary functions of the PMO include advocating on behalf of the NSI, providing guidance to participants at all levels, and coordinating various efforts within the NSI. Given the criticality of privacy and civil liberties issues, the PMO works collaboratively with and is supported by the DOJ Privacy and Civil Liberties Office.
NSI PMO Leadership
Thomas J. O’Reilly is a Senior Policy Advisor for BJA, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), DOJ, and in February 2010 was appointed Director of the Nationwide SAR Initiative PMO. Prior to his position at BJA, Mr. O’Reilly served 34 years in state and local law enforcement and for the last 20 years was the administrator of the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, the organization responsible for oversight of the state police, emergency management, fusion center operations, criminal justice system coordination, criminal and civil legal services, and juvenile justice.
Matthew Jack was appointed as the Principal Deputy Director on March 1, 2010, joining the NSI PMO from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he was most recently the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Information Sharing Initiatives at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In his 25-year career, Mr. Jack has served on numerous state and local task forces in the Northeast to include the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force and Supervisor of the New York/New Jersey Violent Gang Task Force.
John O’Neill was appointed as the Deputy Director of the NSI PMO on March 1, 2010. Mr. O’Neill has been with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since May 1999, most recently as the Assistant Section Chief of the National Threat Center Section, Counterterrorism Division. Prior to the FBI, Mr. O’Neill was a law enforcement officer for 13 years with the Columbia, South Carolina, Police Department.
David Lewis is a Senior Policy Advisor for BJA and was recently named as the Chief Technology Officer to the NSI PMO, responsible for all the technical aspects of implementing SAR throughout fusion centers nationwide. Prior to joining BJA, Mr. Lewis spent 25 years as a local police officer in Pennsylvania.
