Hume Seminar Series: The Analytic Mission of the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC)

About the Event

This presentation will describe the analytic mission of NGIC, its role in the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the customers that it serves. 

About the Speaker

Dr. Chris Beiter,  NGIC Chief Scientist

Dr. Beiter was selected as the Chief Scientist of the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in July 2017 and serves as the Senior Advisor for the Army on Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI), representing the Army in national and international-level forums. He is responsible for providing technical oversight and quality assurance in the development of analytical positions to ensure that accurate and consistent ground-force S&TI is developed and delivered to senior Warfighters, Force Developers, and Policymakers. 

Dr. Beiter previously served as the Senior Intelligence Officer (SIO) for Science and Technology. In this capacity, he complemented the efforts of the NGIC Chief Scientist on broad S&TI issues including Intelligence Support to Acquisition, the effective integration of S&TI - General Military Intelligence - Identity Intelligence, and interactions with senior Army, Defense Intelligence, and Intelligence Community leadership. Prior to this assignment, he was the NGIC Mission Management Division Chief and his Division served as the proponent office for the Army Intelligence Program of Analysis (POA) and many aspects of NGIC Production Management.

During the period October 2014 - January 2016, Dr. Beiter served in a Joint Duty Assignment at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as a Deputy Defense Intelligence Officer for S&TI. His major responsibilities during this assignment were leading the generation of the 2015 DIA Strategic Intelligence Plan S&TI Volume II and conducting oversight of several intelligence-related Better Buying Power 3.0 tasks.

Dr. Beiter was selected as SIO for Integration in May 2012, serving in this capacity through September 2014. During this time he led the development of the inaugural Army Intelligence POA. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Beiter served as the SIO for Weapons and Systems, NGIC's Afghanistan Mission Manager, and as Division Chief in NGIC' s WMD and Military Technologies Divisions.

Dr. Beiter began his career in the intelligence field in August 1991 as an Energetic Materials analyst for the U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center. His efforts included analysis on advanced solid propellant technologies, solid propellant rocket/missile plumes, and thermobaric explosives.

Beginning in 1995, Dr. Beiter became very active on National Intelligence Council-level production committees, serving at times on the Ballistic Missile Systems Subcommittee of the Weapons and Space Systems Intelligence Committee, the Energetic Materials Working Group of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee (STIC) (which he chaired for two years), and the STIC Executive Committee.

In the aftermath of 9-11, Dr. Beiter was instrumental in establishing at NGIC the discipline of allsource S&TI analysis of IEDs as part of the Center's support to the Global War,on Terrorism. These efforts helped pave the way for·the field of Weapons Technical Intelligence as applied to counter-insurgency operations.

Dr. Beiter holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, conferred in June 1991. He also earned an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (May 1988) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (May 1987).

Dr. Beiter is the recipient of numerous awards, including an ODNI National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal, an ODNI National Intelligence Professional Award, and several sustained superior performance awards.

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