K. Stuart Shea
CEO & Chairman of the Board, USGIF
President
Intelligence, Security, and Technology Group
SAIC

Mr. Shea leads SAIC's support to the Intelligence Community. The Group, one of four at SAIC, has more than 11,000 employees, and is one of the largest support organizations in the intelligence community. SAIC provides technology services and products for customers across the full spectrum of national security programs, including imagery and signals intelligence; operational intelligence; special operations; intelligence analysis; advanced space hardware; information assurance and cyber-security; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. The group supports national defense strategies at home and abroad, efforts to improve information sharing that strengthen the intelligence community, and the fight against global terrorism.

From 2005-2007, Mr. Shea led SAIC’s support to the National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, US Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and other elements of the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD). He provides mission support to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) special technology collection programs, and the DoD’s critical space superiority programs, including offensive and defensive counter space operations. His responsibilities range from design and development of collection system payloads and mission operations, to ground segment processing, intelligence analysis, product dissemination, and user applications. His domain expertise centers on imagery intelligence (IMINT), measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT), advanced signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology development, and special communications.

In 2003, Mr. Shea was named as one of the 12 members of the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community. He was appointed by the Speaker of the House, the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL), in consultation with the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, the Honorable Porter J. Goss (R-FL). Congress established the National Commission to review the full range of current Research & Development programs in the intelligence community, to evaluate such programs against the scientific and technological fields judged to be of most importance, and to articulate program and resource priorities for future R&D activities to ensure a unified and coherent R&D program across the entire intelligence community.

From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Shea served as Vice President, Northrop Grumman Corporation, in the TASC business unit, as Director, Space & Intelligence. In this role, he was responsible for the leadership of the support to the newly-established Office of the Director of National Intelligence, along with systems engineering & integration leadership for the NRO, NGA, and other elements of the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Shea was Vice President and Director, Imagery & Geospatial Systems at TASC where he led the support to NRO/IMINT, National Imagery and Mapping Agency (Defense Mapping Agency, Central Imagery Office, and the National Photographic Interpretation Center), Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Department of Justice, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, U.S. Geological Survey, and a wide range of commercial customers. From 1987 to 1993, he led a number of technology programs with DMA and other Federal & Civil Government and Commercial clients.

From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Shea held several positions with PAR Technology Corporation, culminating as Technical Director, Digital Cartography, where he supported the DMA and US Air Force. Prior to that, he was an Imagery Analyst & Remote Sensing Specialist with the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Space Technology Center.

Mr. Shea is President and Chairman of the Board of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) (www.usgif.org) and the founder of the GEOINT Symposium, the nation’s premier gathering of intelligence professionals. He is an internationally recognized author and has served on several major international refereed journal editorial boards. He has been an invited participant & speaker at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Academy of Sciences, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Association of Old Crows, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. He is a former National Director, Cartography and Geographic Information Society. Mr. Shea was awarded the distinction of Fellow, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and served a member of the Sustaining Member Council for the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has served as a Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering. Mr. Shea is a member of the Intelligence and Security Alliance (INSA), AFCEA, ACSM, CaGIS, and the ASPRS. His business accomplishments have been highlighted in Washington Technology, Client/Server Computing, Computerworld, Government Computer News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWire, Washington Technology On-Line, Military Geospatial Technology, Directions Magazine, Homeland Defense Journal, GISuser.com, geocomm.com, Space News, GISCafe.com, GISmonitor.com, and Business Geographics to name a few.

Mr. Shea received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and his M.A. from the University of Kansas. In addition, he is a graduate of numerous Executive Education programs including Harvard Business School, the Darden School of the University of Virginia, The Wharton School at the University of Penn, and George Washington University's School of Business and Public Management. He has additional management and technical courses with George Mason University, and SUNY College of Technology.