Laurie Moe Buckhout is an American government official. She served in the United States Department of Defense as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy from March to September of 2025.

Laurie Buckhout is a retired Army Colonel and decorated combat commander who follows a long line of combat veterans, including her Infantry Colonel father, her Army Air Corps Flight Nurse mother, her grandfather, her uncles and multiple other relatives. Laurie’s husband Paul, a West Point graduate and Army Infantry Airborne Ranger, is also a retired officer from a family of combat veterans stretching back to the French and Indian Wars of 1754-1763. Laurie is also a committed constitutional conservative who proudly cast her first vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980.