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Keynote
Speaker
Mark Riccio
Technical Executive
Office of Americas
Mark
Riccio is the Technical Executive, Office of Americas
with responsibility for the investigation and insertion
of new technologies to meet the demands of the Homeland
Security/Homeland Defense mission at the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,
Bethesda,
Md.
Mr. Riccio earned a Master of Arts in National Security
from the U.S. Naval War College in 2001, and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Geography/Remote Sensing from Central
Connecticut
State
University
in 1990.
Before
assuming his current position, Mr. Riccio was Chief of
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency’s (an NGA
legacy organization) Domestic Operations Branch and was
part of a team that defined and implemented NIMA’s
role in Domestic Counter-Terrorism. Prior to that, he
was with the Intelligence Analysis and Integrated
Operations Division, Office of Americas, Operations
Directorate, NIMA as Chief of the North
America-Caribbean Branch. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Riccio
was Chief of a NIMA Production Cell (NPC) charged with
the functional mission of addressing global intelligence
missions within an end-to-end commercial off-the-shelf
technology solution, a NIMA first.
Mr. Riccio began his career with the Defense
Mapping Agency (another NGA legacy organization) in 1991
and served in a variety of positions focused on the
extraction of feature and terrain information in support
of advanced weapons systems and military and
intelligence operations. Mr. Riccio was a charter member
of NIMA, and soon after its standup joined the
Geospatial Information Integrated Product Team, where he
led the Geospatial Prototype Facility Team through 1998.
This team sought input and participation from across
industry on the availability of commercial technologies
to support the NIMA analytical mission, which then
implemented and made recommendations on the viability of
commercial technology to meet NIMA’s most challenging
analytical missions.
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