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MR. GARY A. O'CONNELL
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Mr. Gary A. O'Connell, a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader, is Chief Scientist, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. NASIC is the Air Force and Department of Defense Center of Excellence for all-source air and space intelligence. It supports. As Chief Scientist, Mr. O'Connell guides the 3,000-person center's analytic production mission, ensuring timely delivery of relevant intelligence data products and services to Air Force and joint operational warfighters, acquisition and force modernization communities, and senior defense and intelligence community policymaking customers.
Mr. O'Connell has served in a variety of assignments within the intelligence community during his Air Force career. He began his government career as a co-op student with the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Va. Upon graduation from the University of Cincinnati, Mr. O'Connell started work as an air-to-air missile analyst for the Foreign Technology Division, now known as NASIC.
Mr. O'Connell began serving as Chief of the Air-to-Air Weapons Branch in 1988 and held several leadership positions throughout the organization leading to his appointment as Associate Chief Scientist for the center's Global Threat Directorate in 1997. In 2004, he earned the rank of Defense Intelligence Senior Leader and assumed his current position as NASIC's chief scientist in July 2005.
Mr. O'Connell is a member of national-level intelligence community boards and during his career has served as the U.S. Air Force representative to both the Weapon and Space Systems Intelligence Committee's Aerodynamic Missile Systems Subcommittee and the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee. In 2007, Mr. O'Connell earned a Presidential Rank Award as a Meritorious Senior Professional.
EDUCATION
1981 Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering, University of Cincinnati
1986 Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
1997 Masters of Science degree in national resource strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
2004 Intelligence Community Senior Leadership Program, Washington, D.C.
2006 Executive Leader Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. June 1981 - September 1988, Air-to-air missile analyst, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
2. September 1988 - August 1992, Chief, Air-to-Air Weapons Branch, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
3. August 1992 - September 1993, Chief, Program Development Branch, Foreign Technology Division, Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio
4. October 1993 - July 1996, Chief, Acquisition Integration Division, National Air Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
5. August 1996 - June 1997, Student, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort Leslie McNair, Washington, D.C.
6. July 1997 - September 1997, Chief, Futures Division, National Air Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
7. September 1997 - January 2004, Associate Chief Scientist, Global Threat Directorate, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
8. January 2004 - July 2005, Associate Chief Scientist, Air and Electronics Directorate, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio
9. July 2005 - present, Chief Scientist, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio
(Current as of February 2012)
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