Our Instructors
Experienced Instructors
ISA offers a cadre of instructors with relevant first-hand experience working in the U.S. Government and Intelligence Community. ISA instructors bring unparalleled experience and insights from years of high-profile service in the executive and legislative branches of government as well as the private sector. Their experience-based competence affords the instructors the ability to illuminate broader considerations and help learners understand how their day-to-day work yields greater effect and importance for their mission.
POSITIONS HELD BY ISA INSTRUCTORS:
✔ Principal Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
✔ Director for Analysis for Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
✔ Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
✔ Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
✔ Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence
Our Instructors
Mark Lowenthal
Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence
Denny Watson
CIA’s President’s Daily Briefer (PDB) in two administrations, including President Bush during the Sep 11, 2001 attacks
Neil Wiley
Principal Deputy Director National Intelligence
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Principal Deputy Director for Analysis
Chief of Defense Technology and Long-Range Analysis
John Sano
Deputy Director, National Clandestine Service
Aaron Prupas
Deputy Director of Defense for NATO (Afghanistan)
Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
Director of Intelligence and Information for NORAD and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
Jack Jones
Director, ISR Enterprise Capabilities, Pentagon, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
Deputy Director, Battlespace Awareness and Program Assessment, Pentagon, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
Tom Matthews
SES from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
Rich McFarland
Special Assistant for Government Relations Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense
Lynn Wright
Acting Director of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon, the Joint Staff task force for Afghanistan/Pakistan intelligence operations, and in Kabul as the chief for all Defense Intelligence Agency operations in Afghanistan