As President and CEO of Aquila Spirit 777, Mr. Amel Smith, a descendant of Hispanic and Native American bloodlines, brings over forty-three (43) years of technical, managerial and operational experience supporting numerous U.S. Government Agencies. This includes 20 years of military service as a Counterintelligence (CI) Special Agent and an additional 12 years directly supporting the Department of State, as an on-site Program Manage/Senior Technical Advisor managing an 80-million-dollar contract, where he supported operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Israel, Egypt, Yemen, China, and numerous other US Embassy locations. TECHNICALHe has a high level of expertise and experience in developing, implementing, and managing Cyber Security Programs, Counterintelligence (CI), Security Programs, Intelligence Analysis, Investigations, Training, Special Security Office (SSO) Support, Information Assurance programs, Personnel, Industrial, Information, Operational and Physical Security Programs and Insider Threat Programs.His past technical performance includes the design, installation, implementation and management of 6 Department of State (Dos) special networks.1) CH-Net Special Access Program 2) Proj-NET C Classified construction 3) Proj-NET U Unclassified (CUI) construction. 4) FOH multi-level sharing solutions between US and Allied countries.5) Read and Burn access and immediately destroy highly classified information6) BFT Blue Force Tracker deployed to US Embassies with a potential terrorist threat profile. MANAGEMENTHis expertise includes 23 years holding technical and Program Manager (PM) positions while dual hatted as a Corporate Executive Director reporting to Corporate Presidents and CEOs for large and small businesses. In these roles he managed and was directly responsible for overseeing over 25 security, intelligence, and language contracts. The agency contracts he managed include the Department of the Army, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, the Pentagon Special Security Office, two CI Technical Surveillance Countermeasures contracts, the Intelligence and Security Command Special Security Office, the Iraq and Afghanistan contract for the DOD Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise (DLITE) contract, the Department of State Iraq Senior linguist and cultural advisor support to the US Embassy senior leadership.