Mark Chatelain

Mark Chatelain is NGA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director, Chief Information Officer & IT Services (CIO-T) Component. He oversees all development, governance, management and innovation related to NGA's information technology infrastructure, systems and services, data libraries and cybersecurity.

Prior to being named NGA’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO), Mr. Chatelain led specific issues and programs within NGA as Associate CIO, while collaborating across the intelligence community with top-level experts and consultants in other Department of Defense organizations, IC agencies and industry. Previously he served as deputy director and acting director of CIO-T's Adopt and Deliver Group, where he was responsible for definition, development and maintenance of all application and infrastructure services within the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence.

Earlier, he served as the deputy program director for the Next NGA West Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. His primary responsibility was leading the development of the information technology component of the new facility and managing the requirements, risk, schedule and configuration management aspects of the Program Management Office.

From 2012-2016, Mr. Chatelain served as the chief of the NGA Support Team, US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base (Omaha, NE). He also was selected to also serve as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s representative to the command. In this role he was responsible for ensuring the integration of all Intelligence Community activities at United States Strategic Command.

Previous assignments include deployment to Afghanistan for two tours as the NGA lead for Regional Command South, West and Southwest in 2012 and the Regional Command East in 2010.

Mr. Chatelain also served as the chief, International Programs Division where he managed the GEOINT acquisition relationships across the broad range of NGAs international partner community. He has served as a Program Manager and Contract Officer Representative for several of NGAs acquisition efforts over the years.

Mr. Chatelain began providing electrical and systems engineer support to NGA in 1986, developing image processing algorithms, GEOINT software/hardware solutions, and imagery collection and management systems. He joined the Agency in 2005, leading the development of user access services, foundation GEOINT data systems, and the commercial imagery tasking, archive and dissemination systems.