K Stuart Shea

Bio

K. Stuart Shea serves as president of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group. Headquartered in McLean, Va., the group has more than 12,000 scientists and engineers, and is one of the largest support organizations to the intelligence community. The group provides technology services and products across the full spectrum of national security programs, including cyber security; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; imagery and signals intelligence; intelligence support for special operations; intelligence analysis; linguistic services; and the development of advanced processing hardware and software solutions. The group supports the fight against the global war on terror and overseas contingency operations through its efforts to improve the collection and sharing of intelligence. Prior to joining SAIC in October 2005, Shea served as vice president, Space and Intelligence, in the TASC Business Unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Under his leadership, the unit provided mission support to the 16 agencies under the purview of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense's space superiority programs. Earlier, he held several positions with PAR Technology Corporation and served as an imagery analyst and remote sensing specialist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kansas Applied Remote Sensing program. In 2003, Shea was named to the 12-member National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the U.S. Intelligence Community, established by Congress to review the full range of current research and development programs in the intelligence community. Shea is the founder, CEO, and board chairman for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, an internationally-recognized educational foundation that has received considerable attention through its annual GEOINT Symposium. He is an internationally recognized author and has served on several major international refereed journal editorial boards. He is a former national director, Cartography and Geographic Information Society, a fellow of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and served as a member of the Sustaining Member Council for the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He is a 2009 recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award for the top executives in the IT industry. He has served as a member of the advisory board of the University of Virginia's Department of Systems and Information Engineering. Shea received a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kansas. In addition, he is a graduate of numerous executive education programs, including the Darden School of the University of Virginia, Harvard Business School, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and George Washington University's School of Business and Public Management.