The Academy faculty consists of former senior executives from several national security agencies, including the major intelligence agencies: CIA, DIA, NSA, NGA, NRO and State/INR. Each faculty member brings a wealth of detailed personal experience in dealing with the issues shared with our clients.

• Mark Lowenthal has held a wide array of senior positions: Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production; Vice Chairman for Evaluation of the National Intelligence Council; Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. He is the author of the standard college and graduate school textbook on intelligence, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (CQ Press), now in its 4th edition. Dr. Lowenthal is an adjunct faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University. He was also the 1988 Grand Champion on Jeopardy!
• Mike Munson has served as the Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Deputy Director for National Support, National Reconnaissance Office. He also served as Director of Intelligence Program Review for DOD and as study director for the National Defense Panel and the recently released report from the President’s Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• Marge Munson has served as Director of the Defense Investigative Service and as Deputy Director for Administration, Defense Intelligence Agency. She has also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security and as Study Director for Defense studies on the use of Chemical Weapons during Desert Shield/Storm and the recently released study in support of the Secretary of Defense on detention operations at Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
• David Burpee retired from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in March 2009 after serving for 9 years as the Public Affairs Officer. He is a certified Adjunct Professor at the National Geospatial-Intelligence College. From 1965-1993, Mr. Burpee served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, including a combat tour in Vietnam; and several public affairs positions, including Director of Defense Information, Office of the Secretary of Defense. He served in this capacity as the senior military spokesperson for the Secretary of Defense and led the daily operation of the Pentagon Press Room. Mr. Burpee earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington for Far Eastern and Slavic Studies in 1965 and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas in 1974. He is also a 1985 graduate of the US Army War College.
• Robert M. Clark served in the Air Force, including a tour in Vietnam, and the CIA, where his focus included Soviet space programs, and technical collection issues.  He continued to work on these issues in the private sector in senior positions at STAC and BTG.  Dr. Clark's writings include a special National Intelligence Estimate on denial and deception; Intelligence Analysis: Estimation and Prediction; and Intelligence Analysis: A Target-centric Approach, now in its second edition. 
• Dan Elkins is a nationally-recognized expert in defense and intelligence resource management. He is a retired naval intelligence officer and also served as an instructor of resource management at the Defense Intelligence College. Mr. Elkins has trained over 9,000 military and civilian personnel throughout the U.S. Intelligence and Defense Communities in national security resource management issues. He is the author of Managing Intelligence Resources; An Intelligence Resource Manager’s Guide and Financial Management of Intelligence Resources: A Primer. This series of publications has served as the most authoritative consolidated reference on intelligence and defense resource management for the intelligence and defense communities.
• Lee Hanna has over thirty years of senior management experience at NSA, including management of its largest analytical component as Chief of SIGINT (signals intelligence) production for worldwide targets; Director of the National SIGINT Operations Center (NSOC); and Chief of Management Services. Ms. Hanna also developed NSA’s Instructor Training Program. Since leaving government service, Ms. Hanna has consulted for government agencies and private sector companies.
• Sarah Holcomb spent 26 years in Government Service. She served as an international trade specialist at the Department of Commerce before joining the CIA’s National Clandestine Service (NCS) in 1981. She served in a number of CIA stations in the Middle East and Latin America. Ms. Holcomb became an Operations Officer in 1992 and served as Deputy Chief of Station in the Middle East and in Europe and Chief of Station in Europe. At CIA Headquarters, Ms. Holcomb served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Operations (now DD/NCS); Chief of Reports of the NCS’s largest reporting component; Humint specialist liaison officer at State Department/INR; Chief of Operations for a new joint Humint-technical targeting and collection operations element; and Chief of the NCS Clandestine Humint Collections Center for the Deputy Chief/NCS for Community
• Robert A. Mirabello has 28 years’ experience in military and civilian education and training; program and curriculum development; execution and evaluation; war gaming, simulation; and experiential education design and implementation. From 1990-2007, Mr. Mirabello held several positions at the National Defense Intelligence College, including Director of Joint Professional Military Training, Department Chair, and Dean; and Chairman, Department of Intelligence and National Security. From 1985-1990, he oversaw over 450 field grade students, faculty and staff at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University. From 1971-1985, Mr Mirabello served in the Air Force, including combat tours in Southeast Asia.
• John L. Moore is a specialist on the Middle East, with over 30 years of analytic intelligence experience in that region, including service as DIA's senior expert on the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism. Mr. Moore served with the 18th Airborne Corps and the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam during 1960s.  In addition to being a faculty member of the Intelligence & Security Academy, Mr. Moore works as an independent consultant on the Middle East for the US Government, private firms and international organizations. Mr. Moore was a witness at the International Court of Justice testifying for the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2003.  He has also written and lectured on the region for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Institute and also serves on the Board of Advisory Editors of the Middle East Journal.
• Anthony C. Nelson has wide ranging national security experience. He spent 20 years as an Army artillery officer, including two tours in Viet Nam and service as a Foreign Area Officer for South Asia. He then joined DIA, where he established the Counterterrorist analytic element and the Global Analysis Division focusing on transnational issues (terrorism, narcotics, weapons and money transfers). Mr. Nelson managed DIA’s imagery analysis office, served as DIA Representative to US Central Command, and served as the Deputy to the Director of Intelligence Production, Defense Intelligence Agency. His long experience as an intelligence officer includes counter-terrorism and regional specialties in Asia and the Middle East.
• William M. Nolte is a 30 year veteran of the U.S. Intelligence Community.  His service at NSA included tours as SIGINT National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Near East/South Asia; Senior Intelligence Adviser; Chief, Legislative Affairs; and Director of Education and Training.  Dr. Nolte also had several senior assignments at the National Intelligence Council: Deputy NIO for Near East/South Asia and Director for Outreach and Strategic Planning; and in Intelligence Community management, serving as Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis & Production; and Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Chancellor, National Intelligence University.  He is currently Research Professor and Director, Program for Intelligence Research and Education School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. 
• Dan Spohn spent 20 years in the intelligence community directing strategic targeting activities and supporting the weapons development and policy offices in the Defense Department, particularly those related to nuclear activities and counterproliferation. Mr. Spohn is a physicist specializing in nuclear weapons effects. He has extensive experience in the laboratory environment simulating the effects of nuclear weapons and hardening military equipment. Before retiring from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2000 he held the position of Deputy Director for Policy Support, with responsibility for intelligence support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, DIA participation in National Intelligence Estimates, foreign intelligence exchanges and special access programs.
• Caryn Wagner has 30 years of intelligence experience, including two tours on the House Intelligence Committee, the last as Budget Director; the first CFO for the National Intelligence Program; Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs; the Deputy Director, DIA for Analysis and Production; and the Director of the Military Intelligence Staff, where she was responsible for development and management of the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP). Ms. Wagner was a Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Officer in the United States Army for eight years.

• Harold Rosenbaum, President of Centra Technology

• James Simon is Director of The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.  Before joining Microsoft, he was President and CEO of IntelligenceEnterprises, LLC.  A career CIA officer, he was
  appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as the first, and last, Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Administration. After September 11th, he was designated as the senior intelligence official for homeland security.  

• Aris Pappas, Senior Director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Pappas was co-founder and vice-president of IntelligenceEnterprises, LLC, a consulting firm supporting a broad range of customers ranging from the space-based imagery industry to the Department of Homeland Security. 

  Mr. Pappas was a career CIA analyst, holding positions in both the Intelligence (analytic) and Operations Directorates.  He was an Assistant National Intelligence Officer during the first Gulf War, and later Executive Secretary of the Director of Central Intelligence's (DCI) Intelligence Science Board. After a year-long tour at the FBI, Mr. Pappas established the DCI’s Homeland Security Staff.