Hume Seminar Series: Mission Management: Integrating the Intelligence Community (IC) to Achieve Unity of Effort

About the Event

The strategic management of intelligence missions is required to be integrated across functions, disciplines, and activities to achieve unity of effort and effect, aligning the interdependent disciplines of collection, analysis, and counterintelligence.  Collection activities are responsive to and inform analytic requirements; analytic activities produce intelligence judgments, identify gaps, and provide collection guidance; counterintelligence compliments identifies vulnerabilities in sources, methods, and activities.  Integrated mission management is also applied to the development of planning, budget, and execution oversight.  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is the leader of the IC and charged by law to integrate the 18 elements of the IC to bring the full might of US intelligence to national security.  In this session, participants will gain an understanding of the various intelligence disciplines, the importance of mission management and integration led by the ODNI, and the challenges in uniting a federation of 18 agencies spread out across the entire Executive Branch.

About the Speaker

Mike Dickerson, Chief of Staff, National Intelligence Management Council

Mike Dickerson has over 20 years of national security, Intelligence Community (IC), policy, technical, and organizational management experience in both the private sector and as a federal employee at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  He is adept at creating, piloting, and launching new roles, organizations, and processes.  Mike has extensive experience in a variety of national security areas, including intelligence operations, analysis, legislative affairs, resource management, policy development, and information technology.  Mike has over a decade of experience managing high-performing teams while creating and orchestrating the creation of strategic intelligence products and business operations processes.  He is a noted instructor on public speaking and briefing techniques. 

Mike is a proud Virginia Tech graduate, with degrees in business management and political science.  Mike and his wife, Lauren, spend their free time raising their energetic 2-year old James (prospective VT class of 2042) and playing with their dog, Maggie. 

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Sarah Downer at humecenter@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.