Identity

About Peter V. Neffenger

Identity confidence: high. Titles and dates come from the Senate roll call, a 2016 House witness bio, Harvard NPLI, CNA, and Smartmatic’s 2018 release. Emphasis is the compiler’s. Portrait is a U.S. Coast Guard work, not a generated face.

Official U.S. Coast Guard portrait of Vice Adm. Peter V. Neffenger as Deputy Commandant for Operations — Vice Adm. Peter V. Neffenger, Deputy Commandant for Operations, July 18, 2012. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Telfair Brown. DVIDS 1120061. U.S. government work.

Peter Vance Neffenger (b. 1955) is a retired U.S. Coast Guard vice admiral and the sixth Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. Official congressional bios, the Senate roll call, and later institutional pages (Harvard NPLI, CNA) match on the same man. This page is identity. The episodes live in the posts. This is not the biography he would write.

Documented roles

Education (official bios). B.A., Baldwin Wallace; M.P.A., Harvard; M.A., Naval War College; M.A., Central Michigan. 2016 House bio; Harvard NPLI.
Coast Guard. Commissioned via OCS (House bio: 1982; some later bios: 1981). Deputy National Incident Commander, 2010 Deepwater Horizon. Deputy Commandant for Operations. 29th Vice Commandant from May 2014. Same House bio.
June 22, 2015. Senate confirmed him Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, 81–1 (Sasse nay). Roll call 217.
TSA Administrator. 2015–January 2017, sixth administrator, Obama appointment. Harvard NPLI uses the January 2017 end date.
Later private roles. Neffenger Consulting, LLC; Harvard NPLI distinguished senior fellow/instructor; CNA trustee; Baldwin Wallace trustee. Institutional bios, accessed 2026-08-22.
Oct. 24, 2018. Smartmatic announced a U.S. board chaired by Neffenger. Business Wire via AP. Whether he still holds that chair in 2026 is unverified (CNA still listed it when fetched; secondary pages say he left).
Sep. 2020–Jan. 2021. Delaware court summary of his deposition: incoming-administration transition work on DHS/immigration while chairing Smartmatic’s board. Official transition list: DHS agency-review volunteer, self-employed. Delaware opinion.

What this site is not

It is not a finding that Peter Neffenger altered the 2020 election, shifted votes, or was named as a defendant in Smartmatic’s 2025 Philippines-related case. Sidney Powell’s on-air software claims are allegations. A company case is not his case. An inspector general covert-test result is not a personal conviction. Current Smartmatic board status is marked unverified.

It is not a White House product. It is not lawsuit-proof. Read the posts.