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K. Stuart Shea serves as president of the Intelligence, Security and Technology (IST) Group, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. The group, one of four at SAIC, has more than 11,000 employees, and is one of the largest support organizations in the intelligence community.
The group provides technology services and products for customers across the full spectrum of national security programs, including imagery and signals intelligence; operational intelligence; special operations; intelligence analysis; advanced space hardware; information assurance and cyber-security; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. The group supports national defense strategies at home and abroad, efforts to improve information sharing that strengthen the intelligence community, and the fight against global terrorism.
Shea joined SAIC in October 2005 to serve as senior vice president and general manager for the Space and Geospatial Intelligence Business Unit.
Shea previously served as vice president, Northrop Grumman Corporation, in their Space and Intelligence Operating Unit of TASC. 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 Space Technology Center.
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 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.
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. | 