David Hill Dunham

• Enterprise level liaison and tradecraft advisor to the Special Activity Center front office and its components
• Enterprise level liaison and tradecraft to the Directorate of Operation’s Technology Management Office

• Served as payload office’s senior SIGINT technical and subject matter expert

Worked closely with office’s engineers, paramilitary, and case officers on technical operations and programs

• Responsible for identifying new technologies and SIGINT systems for the office’s pivot from war zones to new areas of responsibility (AORs) with a renewed focus on peer adversaries
• Program Manager responsible for identifying and purchasing hundreds of thousands of dollars SIGINT systems and the equipment’s testing, integration, and deployment
• Managed the integration, testing, calibration, and deployment of millions of dollars of SIGINT equipment

Team lead of the integration – directed multiple system engineering technical assistance (SETA) engineers, field service representatives (FSRs), contracting officer technical representative (COTRs)

• Worked closely with a Federal Funded Research and Development Corporation (FFRDC) to develop, test, and deploy a new system
• Program Manager responsible for budget planning, operations and maintenance (O&M), sparing, and new system recommendations, purchases, and integrations

• Worked extensively in both operations and engineering in multiple offices
• Deployed on multiple successful operations in the Middle East, Africa, North Asia, and Europe
• Expertise in the operational use of SIGINT collection and geolocation systems
• Worked closely for 15 years in an engineering environment with COTRs, SETAs, and vendors' engineers and scientists helping develop multiple systems and various software suites
• Expertise and close working relationship with engineers, COTRs, SETAs, vendors, and TOOs on the complete lifecycle – from its early inception, testing, deployment, evolution, and O&M – of a tactical SIGINT phased array technology that cost tens of millions of dollars

Worked closely on the initial deployment, training, and operation of this system

Collaborated and worked closely with military partners

• Led a team of engineers and operators over two years to develop, test, and deploy a new and very capable tactical SIGINT system

Tested the system extensively, and successfully deployed the system

• Led tens of system testing events of hardware and software

Directed tens of staff, vendors, and contractors over 15 years

Led several intelligence community software testing events for SIGINT systems that included tens of developers and community participants

Defined, critiqued, and relayed discrepancy reports (DRs), and added capabilities to our software and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) over multiple years

Worked with data scientists and database designers on the content and the design of databases and data architectures

• Briefed at multiple levels including leadership, teams, and large audiences
• Extensive training for a technical operations certification, and continuous operational and technical training classes

• Extensive operational travel in warzones, the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia
• Developed expertise in SIGNT targeting
• Operational successes against terrorists in Southeast Asia

Led a team of staff and contractors targeting terrorists in Southeast Asia

• Worked closely with data analysts, software developers, scientists, and engineers
• Worked closely with the Directorate of Operations and community partners

• Wrote analyses for the President's Daily Brief and senior policymakers
• Briefed senior leadership and policymakers in CIA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State
• Led the Intelligence Community on my accounts
• Worked closely with military partners, experts in WINPAC, National Laboratories, and industry
• Wrote a major paper on a nuclear submarine force