Page Content Susan (Sue) Gordon became
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) sixth Deputy
Director on Jan. 1, 2015 after more than 25 years of service with the
Central Intelligence Agency. As deputy director of NGA, she assists the
director in leading the agency and in managing the National System of
Geospatial Intelligence.
Ms.
Gordon previously served concurrently as Director of the CIA’s
Information Operations Center and as the CIA Director’s senior advisor
on cyber. She was responsible for fully integrating advanced cyber
capabilities into all of CIA’s mission areas, while protecting against
the cyber threat to the CIA’s information, operations and officers.
Sue
began her career with the CIA in 1980 as an analyst in the Office of
Scientific and Weapons Research in the Directorate of Intelligence,
responsible for technical analysis of foreign space and missile systems.
She later held several engineering development positions in the CIA’s
Directorate of Science and Technology, working both national systems and
new concepts before moving into a succession of analytic and technical
management positions.
Ms.
Gordon served later as the executive assistant to the Executive
Director of the CIA and then became the architect and first director of
the Office of Advanced Analytic Tools. In 1998, she was named special
assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and was responsible
for designing and implementing In-Q-Tel, a private, non-profit company
whose primary purpose is to deliver innovative technology solutions for
the agency and the intelligence community.
Following
a break in service to raise her children, Sue was appointed Director of
Special Activities in the Directorate of Science and Technology,
focusing on supporting counterproliferation and counterterrorism
efforts. She was also the Intelligence Community’s focal point for
related biological research, development and engineering capabilities
for collection and operations. She served as deputy chief of the
Information Operations Center from September 2009 to December 2011 and
then as the CIA’s Director for Support from January 2012 to November
2013.
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NGA celebrates 240 years of Marine service to nationNov. 13, 2015 — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Sue Gordon, and guest speaker, retired Marine Col. Phillip Chudoba, honored the Marine Corps’ history and traditions during a 240th birthday celebration Merging TrafficJune 11, 2015 — NGA is mapping out exactly where and how its unclassified lane will converge with the public lane that has been under construction for the past two decades.
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