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From the Desk of the Intelligence Committee, June 2024

Committee Corner

A selection panel of current and former intelligence community leaders recently named the recipients of the new Award for Excellence in Defense Scientific & Technical Intelligence (S&TI), sponsored by AFCEA International’s Intelligence Committee, to address the need for—and recognize the value of—innovation in intelligence.

“This unique award shines a light on the ever-impressive achievements of our S&TI workforce and how they tirelessly work to maintain a competitive advantage,” said Lewis Shepherd, AFCEA Intelligence Committee chair.

The 2024 individual winner is Ian Chamberlain, a ballistic missile payloads specialist for the U.S. Air Force. Chamberlain works as a payloads analyst analyzing various munitions of numerous threats, specifically long-range ballistic missile threat systems. Chamberlain contributed to the advancement of scientific technical intelligence by providing technical support to special projects that resulted in updates to decades-old intelligence assessments used by blue force developers to inform the design of missile defense interceptors and other countermeasures. He briefed the results to Congress, senior leaders in the intelligence community and senior military leaders, including the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

The team award winner is the Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT) R&D team. Team members developed a process for the discovery of technology gaps across the five national mission areas of the MASINT Enterprise: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Space Technical Collection, Advanced Missile Technical Collection, Advanced Nonconventional Weapons, and MASINT Support to Identities Intelligence.

The team members include:

From the U.S. Air Force: Dr. Theresa Watson, Capt. Emeline Lochmaier and Troy Seiler.
From the Air Force Research Laboratory: Andrew Johnson.
From the Defense Intelligence Agency: Lt. Col. Spenser Lee, Lt. Col. Jason Hamilton, David Weed, Nestor Perone and Dr. Krista Hess.
From the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Renato Jelic.