Dale Meyerrose The Honorable Dale W . Meyerrose , Major General ( Retired ) was the first President - appointed , Senate - confirmed Associate Director of National Intelligence / Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) . Mr . Meyerrose is an internationally respected subject matter expert on leadership , strategic planning , cybersecurity , information technology , intelligence , and military matters . He has more than three and a half decades of business , military , U . S . government , and academic experience . He has been frequently quoted in national , international , and news and trade publications and routinely appeared on nationally and internationally aired programs , including Fox News , CNN , Bloomberg International , MSNBC , and WTOP Federal News Radio . He has been a much sought after speaker and panelist at international and national policy and technical conferences and advisor to leading university presidents and deans . Mr . Meyerrose is president of the MeyerRose Group , LLC , a company that consults with a wide range of business , government , and academic organizations on strategy , business planning , technology , education , and executive development issues . He is an visiting associate professor at the School of Information Studies , Syracuse University . He is a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University ’ s School of Computer of Science with the Institute for Software Research and director for the Cybersecurity Leadership ( CSL ) certificate program . Additionally , Mr . Meyerrose is the President and Chairman of the Board for the Air Force Historical Foundation , Trustee for the U . S . Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation and advisor to the U . S . Air Force Heritage Program . Mr . Meyerrose was recently a vice president and general manager for Harris Corporation , a Global Fortune 500 company . He was responsible for leading all aspects of strategy , business development and program execution for cyber growth initiatives across the corporation — and participated in multiple merger and acquisition activities . Government career . The Honorable Dale W . Meyerrose , was the first President - appointed , Senate - confirmed Associate Director of National Intelligence / Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) . He managed activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and enterprise requirements of the U . S . Intelligence Community . He had the procurement approval authority over all information technology items related to the enterprise architectures of all Intelligence Community components . He directed and managed all information technology - related procurement for the Intelligence Community and ensured that all expenditures for information technology and research and development activities were consistent with government enterprise architectures . He also led the information sharing strategy and policy for the Intelligence Community . This position was created by the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act . Mr . Meyerrose was an agent of change in the world of government intelligence . With some 16 different agencies involved in the gathering of intelligence , the challenge of seeing the collective whole was dramatized by the intelligence breakdown of September 11 , 2001 . The breakdown , a product of agency competitiveness and legacy information systems , was greatly due to organizational silos reinforced by the shackles of hierarchy . As Mr . Meyerrose noted of the intelligence community : " We ' ve had this ' need to know ' culture for years . Well , we need to move to a ' need to share ' philosophy . " Mr . Meyerrose initiated an effort to test and ultimately use blogs as a tool for intelligence gathering . While the blogosphere is well known amongst Internet users , it was new terrain for the secure information culture of the intelligence community . Recognizing the trappings of large scale initiatives , Mr . Meyerrose pursued " thinking big , starting small , and scaling fast " through the use of Web 2 . 0 technology . He fostered the development of Intellipedia and pilot projects such as a U . S . government - wide focused on avian flu , in which participants numbered in the tens - of - thousands in just a few months . Information sharing contributions were made worldwide , and content and quality grew rapidly , becoming the impetus for information sharing across the U . S . government . Military career . While on military active duty , Major General Dale W . Meyerrose served as chief information officer of three major U . S . Air Force Commands and three unified U . S . military combatant commands . He was the director of Command Control Systems for the North American Aerospace Defense Command during 9 / 11 , helping to safeguard the air sovereignty of North America . He subsequently became the first chief information officer for U . S . Northern Command , the first modern U . S . military command responsible for homeland defense . General Meyerrose served as the director of communications for coalition task forces supporting post - DESERT STORM operations in Southwest Asia and subsequent combat operations in the Balkan Peninsula . In his last military assignment , General Meyerrose was the Director of Command Control Systems , Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command , and Director of Architectures and Integration , Headquarters U . S . Northern Command , Peterson Air Force Base , Colorado . He also served as the Chief Information Officer and Air Force Element Commander for Air Force personnel for both commands . General Meyerrose ensured the availability and performance of the command and control systems to safeguard the air sovereignty of North America . For U . S . Northern Command , he created architectures and integrated solutions to support the command ' s mission to deter , prevent and defeat threats to the United States . He facilitated communications and information sharing for military assistance to civil authorities for incident response responsibilities assigned to Northern Command . Born in Indianapolis , Indiana , General Meyerrose entered the Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy . The general wears the master communications badge and is a master parachutist .