Springfield, Virginia, United States, December 2025 — Jason LeConte Nelson has been appointed as Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he will play a central leadership role in stewarding the people strategy, workforce systems, and lifecycle governance for more than 260,000 federal employees responsible for safeguarding the United States.
In his new role, Nelson will support enterprise-wide human capital operations spanning recruitment, development, engagement, and retirement programs, aligning workforce capability with DHS’s national security, cybersecurity, border protection, and emergency response missions.
Before joining DHS in his current capacity, Jason LeConte Nelson served as Associate Administrator of Human Capital and Chief Human Capital Officer at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In this role, he led the full spectrum of human capital strategy for the nation’s aviation and transportation security workforce, overseeing talent acquisition, performance management, learning, and compliance for a mission-critical federal agency.
Prior to TSA, he spent more than six years with the Federal Highway Administration, serving as Chief of Staffing Shared Services for the U.S. Department of Transportation and earlier as Chief of Headquarters HR Operations, where he strengthened centralized HR delivery, shared services governance, and enterprise HR operations.
Earlier in his career, Nelson served for nearly nine years with the U.S. Government as Chief of Human Resources and Chief Learning Officer, leading workforce development, leadership learning, and HR modernization initiatives across federal programs.
He began his professional journey in training and development roles at BearingPoint and SEER, building a strong foundation in organizational learning and workforce transformation.
About U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) safeguards the nation across aviation security, border protection, cybersecurity, emergency response, counter-terrorism, and infrastructure resilience. With a workforce exceeding 260,000 employees, DHS executes six core missions spanning national security, economic protection, cyber defense, preparedness, and resilience—working across federal, state, tribal, and international partners to protect the United States and its citizens.
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