GPO Director Names Managing Director Security and Intelligent Documents
WASHINGTON —U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director Hugh Nathanial
Halpern has named David (Dave) Spiers as Managing Director, Security and Intelligent
Documents (SID). In this capacity, Spiers will lead the GPO business unit that designs,
prints, personalizes, and delivers Secure Federal Credentials for many Government
Agencies, which includes the U.S. passport for the U.S. Department of State. David (Dave)
Ford previously led SID and will continue to support the business unit by managing SID
budgets and finances.
“As a teammate who has been managing operations at our secure production facility in
Mississippi since the early days, Dave understands the role the entire SID team serves in
producing passports and other secure credentials,” said GPO Director Hugh Nathanial
Halpern. “This is a great example of how GPO is prioritizing promoting our teammates as
part of robust succession planning so we don’t skip a beat when we have personnel
changes. I look forward to his leadership and congratulate Dave on his well-deserved
promotion.”
Spiers joined GPO in 2008 as the first manager of GPO’s Secure Production Facility located
at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This was the first time a U.S. passport had
been made outside GPO’s Secure Production Facility in Washington, DC. Just a few years
after opening Stennis, Spiers led the beginning of GPO smart card production at the
facility and increased Stennis’s scope of work for passports. As Site Manager at Stennis,
Spiers created the first employee-led safety committee in GPO history and implemented
the SID Key Performance Indicator (KPI) process to measure performance at the facility. In
its second year of operation, the Stennis Secure Production Facility was awarded ISO-9001
Certification, which certifies GPO’s passport operations for meeting a high standard of
excellence. Spiers was integral in GPO’s transition from the production of the ePassport to
the production of the Next Generation Passport in 2015. Prior to being named Managing
Director SID, Spiers served as Operations Manager SID.
He spent 14 years leading operations at manufacturing plants before entering the public
sector.
Spiers holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering Technology/Industrial
Management from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master’s degree in
Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus.
He is a native of McNeill, Mississippi.
GPO is the Federal Government’s resource for publishing trusted information for the Federal Government to the American people. The GPO is responsible for the production
and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal
Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official
publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print
formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information at no charge through
www.GovInfo.gov and partnerships with approximately 1,100 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program. For more information, please visit
www.gpo.gov.
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