Dan Scott

Mr. Scott has 35 years of national security planning, intelligence operations, and foreign language education experience. A 1979 USAF Academy graduate, Mr. Scott began his career as an officer in airborne reconnaissance operations. He gained language and culture expertise as an Olmstead Scholar in Spain, and exchange officer to Venezuela and through duties in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Venezuela, and Qatar. Mr. Scott worked requirements planning, policy, legislative affairs, and strategic targeting on the Joint Staff and the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Because of his operational background, he was selected to be the Director of Targeting and the Deputy Director of Intelligence at US Central Command (USCENTCOM) for Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Subsequently, he served as the Assistant Commandant, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and led the way to increase DOD capability in foreign languages. His intelligence operations experience and foreign language expertise were key factors in his appointment to lead the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Foreign Language Program Office. He also served as the Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer for the Intelligence Community. Currently on a Joint Duty Assignment from ODNI, Mr. Scott leads the National GeospatialIntelligence College in the Human Development Directorate of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).