08.07.06
SBINT: September meeting w/Michele Weslander of ODNI nearly full
SBINT welcomes Michele Weslander of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to the September 2006 monthly meeting.
The ASBC Small Business Intelligence (SBINT) Group is focused on business opportunities within the U.S. Intelligence Community and is open Members of The ASBC meeting the participation requirements.
The September 2006 SBINT event is nearly full. Click here to register.
The meeting begins at 8:00am and prepaid registration is required to confirm participation.
Participation requests must be submitted to Guy Timberlake at gtimberlake@theasbc.org.
Ms. Michele R. Weslander Principal Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Chief Information Officer Ms. Michele R. Weslander was appointed the first Principal Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 3 January 2006. Prior to her appointment to the Director of National Intelligence staff as the Deputy Chief Information Officer, she served as the Deputy Technical Executive of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Ms. Weslander’s previous assignments at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were as the Director of the Horizontal Integration Office, InnoVision Directorate, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Officer for Multi-INT. She was appointed to the Senior Executive ranks in August 2002.
Prior to government service, Ms. Weslander spent over a decade as a systems engineering and technical assistance industry partner and consultant supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, working primarily with the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Appointed a Chief Engineer at her company, her technical expertise includes image science, systems engineering, and operational prototyping and insertion of leading-edge technology to support operations. Ms. Weslander was selectively recruited directly from industry because of her renowned trail-blazing achievements in promoting multi-discipline intelligence collaboration and information sharing among Intelligence Community agencies and the Department of Defense. A true ambassador, her efforts to transform culture, as well as technology, have led to unprecedented collaboration and cooperation between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and their Commonwealth partners.
Ms. Weslander received a Bachelor of Science degree in both Physics and Engineering Science, cum laude, from Seattle Pacific University in Washington, and a Master of Science degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in New York. She is a member of a multi-agency and military team that was awarded the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation, and was personally awarded the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. Ms. Weslander is a member of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CAPSTONE 2003-4 Fellows, and attended the program for Senior Managers in Government at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in Massachusetts.
This link will take you to an article written by Seattle Pacific University, Michelle Weslander’s alma mater: http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/summer2k5/alumni/intelligence.asp
