In 2009, Dr. Bray volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan to help think differently on military and humanitarian issues and in 2010 became a Senior National Intelligence Service Executive advocating for increased information interoperability, cybersecurity, and protection of civil liberties. In 2012, Dr. Bray became the Executive Director for the bipartisan National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community, later receiving the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. He received both the Arthur S. Flemming Award and Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in 2013. He currently is the Chief Information Officer, US Federal Communications Commission. He was selected to serve as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a Visiting Associate for the Cybersecurity Working Group on Culture at the University of Oxford in 2014. He also has been named the number 3 Most Social CIO globally and one of the top 70 Most Social U.S. federal technology professionals, tweeting as @fcc_cio.