Robert E. Trono

Robert E. Trono, Deputy Director of the United States Marshals Service

Robert E. Trono is the current Vice President and Chief Security Officer for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Trono served as the Deputy Director of the [[United States Marshals Service. As Deputy Director, Mr. Trono was the Chief Operating Officer for the Marshals Service and oversaw a budget of $825 million, and 10,000 full time and contract employees. Among its many and varied missions, the United States Marshals Service's primary responsibility is the security of 2,200 federal judges, 5500 federal prosecutors and more than 400 facilities throughout the nation. The Marshals Serivce also manages the Witness Security Program (WITSEC) which protects, relocates and gives new identities to threatened federal witnesses.

Mr. Trono also served in the Department of Justice(DOJ) as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Mr. Trono advised the Deputy Attorney General on a wide variety of matters and oversight responsibility over several agencies including the Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

From 1998 through 2004, Mr. Trono was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. he handled a number of high-profile public corruption matters, including the successufl prosecutions of four city council members. He also successfully prosecuted many violent drug enterprises, including thirty members of a gang responsible for more than twenty murders.