BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Mr. Robert D. Steele Mr. Robert D. Steele is the USMC Management Analyst for the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP) with emphasis on the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP). He works for the Assistant Chief of Staff, Command and Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I), Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, and deals with a broad range of C4I issues. In his capacity as a civilian intelligence manager and analyst he has contributed to the "Defense Intelligence in the 1990's" study chartered by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I); provided staff support to public writing, speaking, and Congressional testimony by Marine Corps leadership; and has published articles on needed changes in national and defense intelligence. As a senior civilian in Marine Corps intelligence, Mr. Steele represents the Marine Corps at the Foreign Intelligence Priorities Committee (FIPC), the Future Intelligence Requirements Working Group (FIRWG), the Open Source Council (OSC), the Advanced Intelligence Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG), the Council of Defense Intelligence Producers (CDIP), and other related national and defense intelligence fora. Mr. Steele was born 16 July 1952 in Oceanside, Long Island, New York. He was commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps in 1976, and an officer in the Foreign Service of the United States in 1979; he entered on Civil Service in 1988. He has earned an A.B. degree from Muhlenberg College (1974), an M.A. degree from Lehigh University (1976), and an M.P.A. from the University of Oklahoma (1987). His three theses have focused respectively on home-host country issues and technology transfer issues associated with multinational corporate activities in the Third World; on the theory and practice of predicting revolution in all its dimensions; and on strategic and tactical management problems and solutions related to the handling of national security data across agency, geographic, and functional lines. Mr. Steele is also a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College (1990), and of the Marine Corps' Command and Staff College (Reserve, 1990); he has also completed the Harvard Executive Program in Public Management (Intelligence Policy). While on active duty as an infantry officer, Mr. Steele served overseas, in platoon and company leadership positions, and as a staff officer for a major Marine Corps command. He was released from active duty at the request of the Department of State. Mr. Steele, after training with the Department of State, reported to El Salvador in early 1980 as the Third Secretary for Political Affairs. He served in a similar capacity in Venezuela, and then as Second Secretary for Political Affairs in Panama. He is familiar with Soviet, Cuban, and Libyan activities in Latin America, and with international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and technology theft/gray arms transactions related to Panama. In Washington Mr. Steele served three tours with the Department of State: as a desk officer for Central America, as a team leader applying advanced information technology to various aspects of foreign relations, and as an analyst in an advanced planning group responsible for guiding long-term multi-disciplinary national security investments. His work was recognized by Department leadership as having had a "strategic impact" on the organization and the way it conducted its operations. He has worked in or been associated with most functional areas within the intelligence community, and has supported law enforcement. Throughout this period Mr. Steele maintained his commitment to the Reserve, serving in Selected Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR) units. He is now an instructor/evaluator for the new Non- Resident Course of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. In early 1988 Mr. Steele resigned from the Department of State to serve as the first Special Assistant and Deputy Director of a completely new defense intelligence production facility, the USMC Intelligence Center. In this capacity he programmed all funds, defined production requirements, managed civilian hiring, and established the design of a new 15,000 square foot facility. During this period Mr. Steele also served as Study Director for a major effort to prototype how intelligence could be better presented to warfighters, with two initial products: a three- volume study "Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations in the Third World", and a new concept for defense intelligence analysis and production, "Expeditionary Intelligence Analysis Framework and Model - Military, Physical, and Civil Factors at the Strategic, Operational, Tactical, and Technical Levels". Mr. Steele is a member of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the Security Affairs Support Association (SASA), the National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA), the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), and Pi Alpha Alpha, a national honor society. Mr. Steele has received three personal awards, a unit citation, and a Meritorious Honor Award (group) for valor, the latter for his service with the Department of State in El Salvador. He is married to Kathy (Kate) Lynette Steele, a native Virginian. They have two sons, Patrick James and Matthew Brian, and reside in the McLean-Falls Church area of Virginia.