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 Mark Chatelain 

Chief Information Officer and Director, Chief Information Officer & IT Services 

Component 

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 Chief Information Officer in February 2023, Mr. 

Chatelain led specific issues and programs within NGA as Associate 

CIO, while collaborating across the intelligence community (IC) 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. 

Before leading the Adopt & Deliver Group, Mr. Chatelain 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 at 

Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, NE. He was also selected to serve as the Director of National Intelligence 

representative to the command, and was responsible for 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 working with an NGA predecessor agency in 1986, providing electrical and systems 

engineer support; developing image processing algorithms, imagery collection and management 

systems; and finding GEOINT software/hardware solutions. He officially joined NGA in 2005, leading the 

development of user access services, foundation GEOINT data systems, and the commercial imagery 

tasking, archive and dissemination systems. 
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Mr. Chatelain was selected as an inaugural member of the NGA Supervisory Council and was elected to 

serve as the 2012-2013 Chairperson. He served as the Analysis Directorate Equality Executive in 2015 

and 2016, and continued his commitment to diversity and inclusion by having served as the Senior 

Champion for the NGA Deaf and Hard of Hearing Council. 

Educational accomplishments include a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University 

of Washington and a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University. 

He is DAWIA level III certified in Program Management and a member of the Department of Defense 

Acquisition Corp.