Stephan Relitz

Stephan Relitz, Chief Engineer, Peraton

Biography:
Mr. Relitz has over 35 years of service supporting the U.S. Federal Government, as a Military Officer, DoD Civilian and Contract Employee (Peraton, AWS and Northrop Grumman). Since 2001, he has supported Cybersecurity activities beginning at the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense for 5 years as an Intelligence Systems Architect. He was the Chief Engineer for Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) program in its initial operational deployment in 2015. Presently, he serves as Peraton’s Chief Engineer for its Federal Strategic Cyber Operating Unit, supporting CISA, Dept of State Cyber Mission (DSCM) and the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3).

He hold Masters Degrees in Technology Management and Cloud Architecture. He is the CTI TC co-chair for STIX as well as a Founding member of the SATIS TC. He is a SAFe Agilist, and ITIL 4 certified.

Additional Information:
Led Peraton’s participation in the OASIS CTI Technical Committee as a Voting member of the Committee, as well as co-chair for STIX working group. Led the analysis of 100+ STIX issues, and prepared the STIX 2.1. errata release candidate.

Founding member of the new OASIS Technical Committee for Space Automated Threat Intelligence Sharing (SATIS) working with TC members and Space ISAC to create a new specification around Space based CTI.

Led the effort by Peraton for hosting of the Cyber Automation Subproject (CASP) Plugfest and Village event in 2024 and 2025, 75 participants in 2024 and 150 participants in 2025 from Government, industry, and academia; provided presentations and demonstrated interoperability of multiple cyber data standards to advance the state of the art.