Erika Taylor
Edmond,OK
Summary
Intelligence and Training Leader with 14 years of combined experience across airborne command and control, ISR operations, and enterprise-level training programs. I’ve led intelligence analysis, nuclear targeting, and conventional–nuclear integration efforts, while designing and managing training and evaluation programs that support Air Force and joint missions. My background includes leading teams, overseeing curriculum development, and enforcing standards across initial qualification, continuation training, and evaluation programs—ensuring mission-critical intelligence capabilities remain standardized, scalable, and operationally ready. I’m committed to developing high-performing teams, strengthening training systems, and driving continuous improvement across complex organizations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Section Chief, Intelligence Training
USAF
10.2024 - Current
- Direct enterprise-level training operations for the Air Force’s Battle Management/Command & Control (BMC2) Initial Intelligence Qualification Course and leading a team of instructors across multiple mission sets.
- Provide strategic oversight of curriculum governance for the BMC2 community’s Master Training Task List Review Board, updating and validating a 100-item task list that standardizes intelligence training across the USAF enterprise.
- Oversees recurring training requirements and periodic evaluations to ensure force readiness and standardized intelligence proficiency for 62 intelligence analysts.
NCOIC, Intel Operations
USAF
03.2023 - 10.2024
- Led an 18-member intelligence team producing enemy Indications and Warnings to drive wing operations supporting global contingency missions, higher headquarters taskings, and counter-drug operations.
- Delivered timely intelligence assessments informing operational decision-making for 2,000 command and control operators across multiple mission sets.
- Advised senior leaders on emerging adversary tactics, techniques, and capabilities across six combatant commands.
- Oversaw development and execution of Wing Commander Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) to align intelligence efforts with operational priorities.
- Directed Weapons and Tactics intelligence training to enhance mission effectiveness and operator readiness.
- Led Wing Commanders Top Secret Training Plan for aircrew members, managing a team of five to provide multiple sessions on Airborne Early Warning, Kill Chain, Datalinks, and Exercise/Training academics, instructing pacing threat curriculum to 1.4K Airmen to support strategic competition.
NCOIC, Conventional Nuclear Integration Team
USAF
03.2021 - 03.2023
- Led the stand-up of the Conventional–Nuclear Integration Team, ensuring valid, feasible, and executable full-spectrum targeting options were available to senior decision-makers.
- Directed a Director of National Intelligence–led initiative to coordinate development of new undersea targets supporting Joint Chiefs of Staff Globally Integrated Operations and strategic competition objectives.
- Developed undersea reference points to enable intelligence collection and targeting in support of clandestine and covert operations in contested environments.
- Produced the first undersea warfare equipment targeting options and organized intelligence community reviews to assess viability and force-posture implications.
- Supported the Joint Technology Capabilities Working Group by developing essential elements of information for the first-ever seabed intelligence collection effort.
- Built the first undersea warfare mission planning requirements and reviewed national targeting policy to inform next-generation non-lethal strategy development across 33 organizations and four combatant commands.
- Prepared kinetic targeting options for inclusion in multi-command target lists and identified critical hypersonic weapons infrastructure targets.
- Enabled Global Integrated Base Plan efforts by aligning command firepower with adversary vulnerabilities through integrated targeting analysis.
Strategic Targets Analyst
USAF
03.2019 - 03.2021
- Developed and nominated strategic targets in support of U.S. Strategic Command and regional combatant command OPLAN guidance and mission objectives.
- Prepared and briefed intelligence assessments and targeting products supporting the National Targeting Board (NTB) and U.S. Strategic Command mission sets.
- Ensured NTB technical targeting data aligned with commander guidance and operational objectives for U.S. Strategic Command OPLANs.
- Provided analytical content, formatting, production, and dissemination of national target folders in accordance with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense instructions.
Operations Intelligence Analyst
USAF
10.2012 - 03.2019
- Produced all-source intelligence products including situation estimates, order-of-battle studies, and platform-specific resources supporting E-8C JSTARS operations.
- Created and delivered intelligence mission planning briefs, debriefs, threat assessments, and theater deployment training for 645 aircrew members.
- Developed intelligence read files, mission reports, post-mission summaries, and maintained five AOR operational trackers to support ongoing operations.
- Provided near real-time intelligence support to airborne JSTARS missions, coordinating crew requirements and intelligence updates with the intelligence community.
- Managed and directed the Standardization and Evaluation element for E-8C all-source intelligence operations, training, and product development.
- Ensured standardization and evaluation of Threat of the Day, current intelligence briefings, and internal and external intelligence training programs.
- Served as advisor to the Chief of Wing Intelligence on adverse training trends, conducted no-notice evaluations, and enforced standardized implementation of intelligence AFIs and OIs across ground and air intelligence operations.
- Conducted fused analysis of E-8C GEOINT and Moving Target Indicator data with joint all-source intelligence, producing and disseminating analytical products to partner agencies and higher headquarters to support C2ISR mission priorities.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Health Information Management
Southern New Hampshire University
Hooksett, NH09-2025
Associate's Degree - Intelligence Studies
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL10-2019
Airman Leadership School
Robins AFB, Georgia02.2019
Skills
- Team Development
- Team Management
- Program Management
- Problem Solving
Certification
- Principles of Instruction
- Sigma Six White Belt
- Program Management
Timeline
Section Chief, Intelligence Training
USAF
10.2024 - Current
NCOIC, Intel Operations
USAF
03.2023 - 10.2024
NCOIC, Conventional Nuclear Integration Team
USAF
03.2021 - 03.2023
Strategic Targets Analyst
USAF
03.2019 - 03.2021
Operations Intelligence Analyst
USAF
10.2012 - 03.2019
Bachelor’s Degree - Health Information Management
Southern New Hampshire University
Associate's Degree - Intelligence Studies
Community College of The Air Force
Airman Leadership School