Jeanne C. Foster
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Executive
Senior Advisor
Jeanne C. Foster brings more than 30 years of national security experience as a senior advisor and leader in the federal government across the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Security Enterprise. Ms. Foster was the Deputy Director of the Chief Information Office (CIO) and Information Technology (IT) Services Directorate at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where she led and directed NGA's mission and enterprise IT development and operations, managing an annual budget exceeding a billion dollars, and a workforce of more than 5,000 people.
Known as a transformational leader, Ms. Foster served concurrently as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Director of the Office of Mission Resources (OMR) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where she demonstrated unparalleled management of the Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T) workforce, budget, and support functions. Her leadership across the broad array of technically-focused offices as the CIA helped drive the restructuring and modernization of today's current Mission Center construct.
As Director of the Office of Technical Readiness (OTR), Ms. Foster led the DS&T's worldwide Technical Bases managing hundreds of Technical Intelligence Officers (TIOs) deployed throughout the world, to include the warzones.
Ms. Foster served as the Director, Office of Development and Engineering (OD&E) and the Director, Special Communications Office (SCO) at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), concurrently. As a mission-driven leader, she worked to grow and develop the cadre of DS&T engineers and program managers who acquired, launched, and operated the next generation overhead satellite systems, and the ground and communication architectures. Ms. Foster delivered multiple special communication systems in support of special operations by establishing critical partnerships across the IC and DoD.
Ms. Foster is currently an Advisor at Accion Systems, Enabled Intelligence, BCubed Engineering, and the Day & Zimmermann Government Services Advisory Board.