Adam Kerr has been named Budget Officer for the U.S. Secret Service, where he now leads the Budget Division within the agency’s Chief Financial Officer office.
Kerr brings more than two decades of leadership experience spanning military service, aviation, financial management, acquisitions, intelligence, and federal program management. In his new role, he oversees the budget planning and execution process for the Secret Service.
Prior to joining the Secret Service, Kerr served as a Senior Financial Analyst with Agile Consulting Experts, providing financial guidance to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Directorate. There, he helped manage budgets, spending plans, and procurement efforts supporting autonomous systems across air, surface, subsurface, and counter-domain missions.
He also spent nearly two years at FEMA as a Senior Analyst and Strategy Team Lead, where he managed the agency’s fiscal year 2025 and 2026 budget development process. His responsibilities included budget justifications, DHS leadership briefings, congressional presentations, and process improvement initiatives supporting the Resilience Directorate and the National Flood Insurance Program.
Kerr’s federal career includes more than 27 years with the U.S. Coast Guard, where he held a series of senior leadership positions in financial management, acquisitions, aviation operations, logistics, and intelligence. Among his most notable assignments was serving as Program Manager for the Coast Guard’s $286 million Financial Management System acquisition, which supports execution of the service’s approximately $11 billion annual budget and coordinates with other DHS components on a standardized financial management platform.
Earlier roles included leading strategic planning and budget efforts for Coast Guard Intelligence, managing a $181 million annual budget and supporting more than 1,200 personnel, as well as serving as Executive Officer and Aeronautical Engineering Officer at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, where he oversaw personnel, aircraft operations, budgets, and major acquisition initiatives.
A Coast Guard aviator and aircraft commander, Kerr also accumulated extensive operational experience throughout his military career while managing increasingly complex programs involving aviation, logistics, financial management, and national security missions.
