Richard Patrick Nyren Jr, 81, of Chantilly, Virginia, passed away peacefully on January 14, 2025. he was the oldest of nine children and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Richard graduated from University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from American University. He dedicated 42 years to the United States government, as an intelligence officer and computer scientist with the Defense Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Systems Agency, retiring in 2008.