Christopher Hickey

Background

About Christopher Hickey

With over 30 years of experience in all-source intelligence collection & analysis operations, maritime domain awareness, information/intelligence sharing, state & local intelligence fusion center operations, counter/anti-terrorism analysis, and open source intelligence, Hickey is regarded as a leader in the fields of maritime intelligence and intelligence education/training. Hickey, currently a Senior Systems Engineer working on the Proteus MDA system (former S2A), has been working in the national intelligence community since 1992, where he was the first civilian intelligence professional to work for all three military maritime agencies in their strategic intelligence centers (USN, USMC, USCG). A former Navy surface warfare officer, he caught the "intel bug" as the Combat Information Center Officer onboard the USS Manitowoc (LST-1180) in the late 1980s. His first post active duty intelligence position was as a plank-owner of the Office of Naval Intelligence's SABER Division, providing threat intelligence to the Navy's surface community in 1993. Duty with the Marine Corp Intelligence Activity's Expeditionary Warfare Support Division followed, as Hickey became the Intelligence Community's subject matter expert on the littoral environment and integrated beach/anti landing defenses. Moving to the Coast Guard's Intelligence Coordination Center in 1997, Hickey was the Coast Guard's senior terrorism analyst and created Coastwatch, the Coast Guard Intelligence Program's indications and warning intelligence program for its maritime homeland security efforts. Sandwiched around a two-year active duty period post 9/11 with the Office of Naval Intelligence, Hickey worked for iJET International, a leader in open source intelligence and travel security, as Director of Watch Operations. While mobilized, Hickey was the Deputy Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence's Maritime Target Development Division, which was dedicated to identifying, tracking and disrupting commercial shipping networks associated with international terrorism. From 2004-2010, Hickey specialized in supporting homeland security programs at the national, state and local level while working with CENTRA Technology, Inc. He was the senior analyst assisting in the development of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center & the Mass Bay Transit Authority’s Intelligence Unit. Hickey just finished a six year tour working for the National Intelligence Manager-Maritime on the ODNI staff where he was the Liaison to the National Intelligence Council & Homeland Maritime Border Security Program Manager.