Stephen Kessler Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon, Washington D.C.

- Develop, produce, and maintain electronic technical intelligence products and rich site summary RSS feeds on The Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICs) and/or The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRnet) for topics including but not limited to: weapon systems, C4ISR, space/counter-space, and human systems.- Draft and coordinate Production Requirements (PRs) in the COLISEUM system on JWICs and Intelligence Community responses to those PRs as directed.- Serves as the Activity Security Representative (ASR) for both TS//SCI and SAP facilities.- Experience in Special Access Programs (SAP) DoD related, including the accreditation of SAP rooms and COMSEC maintenance. - Review and produce gap analysis of existing intelligence using open / all source intelligence.- Produce, format, and archive monthly Science and Technology (S&T) Intelligence updates on SIPR, including maintenance of the distribution list which includes top level Department of Defense leadership.- Develop comprehensive assessments and briefings in technical domain areas as directed by leadership.- Maintain the OASD (R&E) Intellipedia sites on both SIPR and JWICs. Responsible for adding content and highlighting new intelligence information in the monthly S&T Intel update.- Create PowerPoint briefings and summaries appropriate for senior DoD leadership detailing topic area Intelligence briefings and updates of mission importance.- Maintain an electronic repository of intelligence products of interest to the Research, Development and Acquisition Task Force (RDA TF) and OASD(R&E) leadership with bi-weekly updates from morning hardcopy read folders. Responsible for summarizing the most critical contents, key takeaways, and intelligence gaps within that repository.

Pentagon, Washington D.C.

- Maintained office calendars of high-level personnel to ensure coordination of daily activities and travel to resolve conflicting priorities and guarantee attendance at high profile meetings.- Prepared formal, official correspondence up to the Secretary of Defense level based on drafts from senior level persons in the office.- Monitored the Staff Action Control and Coordination (SACCP) database to ensure all taskers are handled appropriately and in a timely manner. - Maintained accountability of files and correspondence including Congressional correspondence from the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Pentagon, Washington D.C.

- Provided financial management and support for all program efforts in progress.- Reviewed and filed quarterly expenditure tracking reports.- Executed procurement preparation, financial files, and seedling efforts for program activities.- Helped organize and run conferences held with but not limited to scientific and academia performers and various laboratories to encourage brainstorming of new projects and visions for ongoing DARPA programs or possible new efforts

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), Arlington Va

-Served as Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistant (SETA) within the Director’s Office (DIRO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).- Assembled and analyzed program completion reports and created penta-charts for monthly brief to DARPA Director.- Developed briefs for the Director and Deputy Director of DARPA as well as top-ranking officials from the Department of Defense.- Assisted with development of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) documents between DARPA program managers and transition partner (Army / Navy / Air Force).- Scheduled and attended all DARPA program manager meetings regarding program transition. Ranges from 4 to 7 meetings per month with an attendance of 3 to 15 people from various agencies.

Mclean, Va

- Analyzed documents and extracted foreign intelligence information to support the office’s efforts in counter-proliferation.- Provided granular focus on foreign countries that were of interest to national-level security, policy makers, as well as the subject of international media attention.- Evaluated national-level intelligence products and reports from domestic and international sources.- Performed in-depth and cross data source analysis on identity targets with intent to find new identity and action(s) intelligence.- Worked to extract information from intelligence documents to render effective judgment on the quality of the intelligence and determine what information is mission critical.- Worked with various Intel systems to create a web of information regarding the intelligence extracted from the “cables” in order to create a relative information flow system.- Tracked, identified, and managed identity information on known or suspected targets.