GARY A. O'CONNELL Mr Gary A. O'Co...

GARY A. O'CONNELL

Mr Gary A. O'Connell is Associate Chief Scientist, Air and Electronics Directorate, National Air and Space Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Mr O'Connell provides technical oversight and leadership for more than 220 commonalty He is responsible for proceeds content and quality for the directorate's intelligence harvests and he ensures these effects satisfy the needs of the center's joint operational, acquisition and policy-making customers.

Mr O'Connell a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, began his sway career as a co-operative scholar with the Naval Surface Weapons Center Dahlgren, Va. relating to graduation from the University of Cincinnati, he started work as an air-to-air missile analyst for the Foreign Technology Division, now known as NASIC. He was appointed as Chief of the Air-to-Air Weapons Branch in 1988 and held several positions in management until 1997 when he was appointed the Associate Chief Scientist for Global Threat. He serv as the Air Force representative for the Weapon and Space orders Intelligence Committee's Aerodynamic Missile hypothesiss Subcommittee from 1986 through 1992 He also serv as the Air Force representative the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee from 2001 by the and of 2004. He was promoted to Defense Intelligence Senior Leader even when he assumed his circulating position in January 2004.

EDUCATION

1981 Bachelor of science step in aerospace engineering, University of Cincinnati

1986 Career Broadening Program, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

1992 Senior growth Program, National Air Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

1997 Master of science order in national resource strategy, Industrial guild of the Armed Forces, Fort Lesley J McNair, National Defense University, Washington, DC

2004 Intelligence Community Senior Leadership Program, Washington, DC

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 progress to maturity 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 bookish man Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort Lesley J McNair, Washington, DC

6 July 1997-September 1997 Chief, subsequent times Division, NAIC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

7 September 1997-January 2004 Associate Chief Scientist for Global Threat, National Air and Space Intelligence Center Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

8 January 2004--present Associate Chief Scientist, Air and Electronics Directorate, NASIC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

(Current as of July 2004)

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