Steven Schaefer

Experience

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  38th Reconnaissance Squadron

  Jul 1999 - Jun 2000

  Unit Security Manager
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  71st Operations Support Squadron

  Jun 2000 - Jun 2001

  Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training
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  315th Training Squadron

  Jun 2001 - Feb 2002

  Student, USAF Intelligence School
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  30th Intelligence Squadron

  Feb 2002 - Apr 2004

  ISR Mission Commander; Chief of Standards and Evaluations

  • Directed the activities of 70 intelligence and maintenance personnel for over 200 U-2 and MQ-1 multi-intelligence collection missions supporting Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia and United States Central Command.

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  480th Intelligence Wing

  Apr 2004 - Dec 2005

  Chief of Standardization and Evaluations; Chief of Weapons and Tactics

  • Directed wing evaluation and tactics programs impacting over 2,000 personnel in 12 units, supporting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations worldwide.• Ensured certification of personnel on three collection platforms by developing and implementing standardized tactics, techniques, and procedures.• Oversaw multi-discipline intelligence production supporting National, Service, and geographic combatant command requirements.

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  National Reconnaissance Office

  Jan 2006 - Nov 2009

  Chief of Personnel Recovery

  • Led National intelligence support to personnel recovery/combat search and rescue.• Planned and acquired capabilities and integrated them into recovery forces and operations centers worldwide.• Maintained National overhead Signals Intelligence support to personnel recovery/combat search and rescue concept of operations and managed inter-agency and Joint solutions.

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  United States Strategic Command

  Nov 2009 - Nov 2012

  • Led military and contract personnel in the execution of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center’s responsibility to maintain timely Indications and Warnings. Facilitated intelligence data integration in the sensor-to-shooter target process.• Developed organic intelligence capabilities to deter or defeat adversary strategic relocatable weapon systems. • Director of Intelligence liaison to Global Operations Center. Provided near real time reports of foreign strategic space/mission events to the Command’s senior leadership.

  • Branch Chief, Strategic Relocatable Targets

    Jun 2011 - Nov 2012

  • Global Operations Intelligence Mission Area Expert

    Nov 2009 - Jun 2011
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  1st Air Force, Air Forces Northern (AFNORTH)

  Nov 2012 - Aug 2015

  Chief of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations

  • Led development of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance weapons systems employment options and collection management for all operationally aligned intelligence activities.• Developed training requirements and policy guidance to enable effective mission execution of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms tasked to support United States Northern Command’s homeland defense and theater security cooperation missions.

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  Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, The White House

  Aug 2015 - Jul 2017

  Senior Policy Analyst

  • Advised the Presidentially appointed Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on the Department of Defense’s counter-narcotic and global threats programs.• Provided analytic basis to implement the President’s National Drug Control Strategy.• Counseled inter-agency executives and the National Security Council during critical dialogue with the People’s Republic of China to control the export of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals.

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  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  Jul 2017 - Jun 2020

  Senior Collections Officer for Personnel Recovery/Hostage Rescue

  • Coordinated geospatial intelligence support to Department of Defense and federal civil and law enforcement agencies’ personnel recovery programs, to include collection management, analytic support and production, and tradecraft development.• Identified gaps in geographic combatant command intelligence support to Personnel Recovery programs and proposed solutions to include authoring of Command instructions tasking guidance, and checklists and development of in-house training programs.• Led development and implementation of new geospatial intelligence collection, processing, and analysis initiatives to support personnel recovery.• Updated Agency directives and author operations center procedures to support recovery forces’ operations. Show less

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  KBR, Inc.

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2021

  Principal System Engineer, Multi-Intelligence Domain Lead

  • Managed diverse array of multi-intelligence modeling and simulation projects focused on National intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.• Customized scenarios, target databases, and constellations to effectively model the current National systems and potential future systems at the ground, constellation, and sensor levels.• Managed and coordinated development of activity-based intelligence concepts of operation that incorporated National ISR systems across both Geospatial and Signals Intelligence disciplines.• Supported annual classified budget analysis, briefing impacts to critical systems and pursuits. Show less

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  The Aerospace Corporation

  Dec 2021 - now

  Senior Project Leader

  • Assists the Government in analyzing national intelligence needs and capabilities, as well as the existing and potential systems and methods for achieving national intelligence needs.• Provides objective, independent, conflict-free technical scientific, analytical and system engineering support regarding Intelligence Community acquisition issues including space- and ground-based activities. Offers executive level support in all facets of mission accomplishment.• Supports end-to-end integration of major system acquisitions to include independent technical and programmatic assessment and evaluation of cost, schedule, and performance issues. Supports the development and execution of risk analysis and management approaches for acquisition programs. Show less