HENRY Torres
YORK,PA
Summary
Dynamic Senior PPBE Capabilities Portfolio Manager with extensive experience at the Joint Staff, with a proven record of executive collaboration and high-level analytical writing optimizing the JCIDS processes and delivering actionable insights that drove strategic investment decisions, enhancing national defense priorities and resource allocation across multiple theaters. Highly Skilled as an investment professional with excellent leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities that provided risk-informed proposals, in a fast paced environment.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior PPBE Capabilities Portfolio Manager SME
Joint Staff/J2 Force Modernization Action Group
Pentagon
06.2024 - 06.2025
- Enabled Strategic Investment Decisions: Delivered real-time TS/SCI-level intelligence and ADVANA-driven programmatic data to senior leaders, directly informing time-sensitive investment/divestment decisions aligned with national defense priorities.
- Bridged Congressional Intelligence with Operational Strategy: Synthesized HASC/SASC discussions and MIP/NIP Justification Books into actionable insights for Joint Staff Action Officers, shaping strategic postures across Combatant Commands and guiding resource allocation.
- Optimized PPBE Processes Across the Enterprise: Provided oversight and evaluation of service-level PPBE submissions, ensuring JROC-directed capabilities were accurately reflected in POM/BES cycles and Defense Agency program decisions.
- Strengthened Battlespace Awareness & Capability Alignment: Executed knowledge management functions and traceability analysis to support CPMs and Combatant Commanders in identifying and prioritizing joint requirements for the Capability Gap Assessment.
- Advanced Situational Awareness at the Highest Levels: Represented PPBE equities in Chairman-level Global Terrorism Awareness meetings and senior workshops, enhancing strategic understanding of global threats and informing CJCS-level decisions.
Senior Capabilities Development Analyst
Marc Center
Alexandria
10.2023 - 04.2024
- I conducted daily classified and open-source analysis on adversarial information environment operations—spanning IW, C2IE, and MISO—shaping our team’s posture against PRC and Russian threats. My insights directly informed senior-level decision-making and counter-disinformation strategies across multiple theaters.
- I supported OUSD(P) leadership by preparing intelligence brief portfolios and refining language for key doctrine, including DoDD 3600. These efforts empowered strategic engagement with DoD audiences and advanced policy alignment on Military Information Special Operations (MISO) and information warfare.
- I bridged interagency gaps by initiating collaboration between the Department of the Air Force and OUSD(P), catalyzing serious consideration of C2IE as a joint operational platform. My coordination with Joint Staff/J8 and Air Force stakeholders delivered precise PPBE data that advanced procurement conversations.
- I provided strategic oversight on JCIDS and leveraged the KM/DS Joint Staff/J2 tool to deliver intelligence on JROCMs and SW-ICDs, enhancing collaboration with COCOMs and Service Components. My SME-level contributions during Key Leader Engagements prompted OUSD(P) leadership to consider accepting Command Control Information Environment (C2IE) functionality ownership.
- I equipped Key Senior Leaders with tailored intelligence touchpoints for national-level meetings, ensuring optimal strategic messaging. My historical and contemporary analysis on MISO and Public Affairs (PA) reinforced their critical role in today’s competition continuum and conflict threshold.
Senior-Level Strategic Requirements & Intelligence Advisor
US SPACE FORCE HQ
Pentagon
06.2022 - 09.2023
- Led cross-functional collaboration across DoD Services, Joint Staff, and allied agencies to advocate for USSF equity interests, ensuring synchronized efforts and timely decision-making at the GO/FO and SES levels.
- Delivered critical subject matter expertise on JCIDS processes, doctrinal strategies, and capability development, streamlining documentation and accelerating acquisition timelines for Space Force programs.
- Integrated intelligence and threat analysis using the Defense Intelligence Threat Library (DITL) and classified sources to inform strategic decisions on protected satellite systems, cyber capabilities, and force design.
- Managed executive-level communications, including strategic briefs, decision memos, and classified updates for CSO, VCSO, and CSRO, maintaining operational continuity and leadership awareness of key equities.
- Optimized policy and process oversight through Gatekeeper and TMT systems, improving requirements management, classification protocols, and interagency coordination to reduce duplication and enhance transparency.
Senior Level III Security Officer
USCYBERCOM
NSA annex
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Spearheaded USCYBERCOM/J29 oversight and advocacy across JCIDS, PPBE, and DAS processes, ensuring alignment of intelligence requirements with strategic capability development.
- Initiated and coordinated collaboration between Joint Staff (J283/IRCO) and USCYBERCOM/J29 to vet and validate key Requirement Documents, including SW-ICDs and IS-CDDs.
- Authored multiple SOPs for USCYBERCOM/J2, including IPL Gap Analysis procedures and JCIDS/Cyber-CIDS onboarding guides, enhancing continuity and operational readiness for senior officers.
- Conducted comprehensive IPL gap analysis using KMDS and COLISEUM, enabling actionable insights for J29 Action Officers and improving capability submissions through CGA/AJA processes.
- Delivered validated Threat Summaries for IS-ICDs, ICDs, CDDs, and DCRs, supporting J8/Gatekeeper and senior leadership with timely intelligence on cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
SSO
Office of Naval Intelligence
02.2021 - 08.2021
- Spearheaded TS/SCI indoctrinations, annual trainings, and debriefings, ensuring 100% compliance with national security protocols across multiple special access programs.
- Streamlined personnel clearance processing by expertly guiding SF86 submissions and managing SCI access systems, including e-QIP, JPAS, and Scattered Castles.
- Directed secure document control operations—assigning serial numbers, issuing barcodes, conducting audits, and overseeing classified data transfers with zero discrepancies.
- Executed destruction of classified materials (shredding/burning) and maintained meticulous destruction logs, reinforcing operational integrity and accountability.
- Managed courier cards, visit requests, and ASEP caveat verifications, enabling seamless access coordination and safeguarding compartmentalized program integrity.
Senior Level III Security Officer
NSA
06.2020 - 12.2020
- Directed access control for 50+ personnel daily across high-security sites, enforcing mission-specific protocols and safeguarding classified operations.
- Managed end-to-end personnel security processes, including clearance adjudication, SCI investigations, and database oversight, ensuring 100% compliance with DODCAF and ICD standards.
- Led dissemination of time-sensitive classified intel, streamlining communication between SSO SMEs and operational teams to accelerate mission-critical decision-making.
- Collaborated with technical staff, customer stakeholders, and security teams, applying expert knowledge of government and industrial security to fortify organizational resilience.
Senior SIGINT/JCIDS Capabilities Requirements Analyst
US ARMY
Fort Huachuca, USA
01.2019 - 08.2020
- Led SIGINT oversight for the 111th MI Brigade, accelerating classified/unclassified platform deployment through strategic capability meetings and warfighter-focused guidance.
- Applied DOTmLPF-P methodology to field classified prototype SIGINT satellite platforms, aligning technical solutions with operational needs and stakeholder expectations.
- Influenced high-level decisions by interfacing with senior leaders in SIGINT WGs, shaping capability requirements presented to CoC, G-8, and AROC boards.
- Drove acquisition success for platforms like TITAN, contributing critical KPPs/KSAs and enabling readiness for Multi-Domain Operations such as DEFENDER2020.
- Authored and refined CDD drafts, integrating SME-level SIGINT insights that advanced platforms through the JCIDS process and reduced capability gaps.
SIGINT Capabilities Analyst
US ARMY
Camp Humphreys, South Korea
09.2016 - 01.2019
- I assisted G3 in conducting future operations (FUOPS) in the intelligence working groups that facilitated and augmented EXERCISE DEFENDER2020 before it was postponed due to COVID-19.
- During the planning process, the task was to get all aspects: land, air, and sea assets working synchronously with coalition forces in both South Korea and Europe.
- Understood the importance of Bandwidth allocation to each unit commander to classified platforms with inter-domain capabilities being transported promptly to assigned units.
- Facilitated the strategic planning phases in military exercises that encompassed the 8th Army being attacked by North Korea.
- Assisted in a three-day strategic war planning process of critical decisions that entailed possible hostile takeovers in military bases in South Korea.
SIGINT Instructor
Goodfellow AFB
06.2013 - 09.2016
- I worked on CRITIC reporting, ArcGIS tasks, and Field of Battle proficiency.
- Created Raster and Vector maps and correlated them with SIGINT information.
- Refresher classes on CRITIC/KLs/TACKREPs/ at the instructor level.
- Experienced in navigating, querying, and using data from multiple open source and Intelligence Community databases and forums on classified and unclassified systems.
- Performed research analysis using open source and classified sources to create comprehensive baseline profiles of designated target sets; identified intelligence gaps and evaluated the intelligence gathered to either tailor current collection or enable the new collection to close the gaps.
SIGINT Capabilities Analyst/SSO
Buckley AFB
09.2011 - 06.2013
- Principles, concepts, and methodologies of intelligence analysis and research to include target analysis and database leveraging.
- The understanding of the Intelligence Community, their partners, and supporting/driving intelligence operational activities.
- Provided collection methods and techniques, and practices to use multi-source intelligence information systems to make recommendations in developing intelligence capabilities and threat assessments.
- Utilized GALE-LITE to perform real-world exercises using CRITIC Reporting/KLs/TACKREPs/TIPPERS, Serialization of intelligence reporting.
- Utilized policies and regulations to manage the SSO office.
SIGINT Capabilities Req Analyst
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Continued to produce SIGINT TARGET packets.
- Learned to utilize MASINT, ELINT, and OSINT to narrow SIGINT intelligence gaps.
- Worked with CALL CHAINING/GATEWAY (Tier 1/2/3) to identify, locate, and capture US adversaries using network analysis.
- Embedded in TAR teams that provided support in counter-terrorism efforts by gathering, exploiting, analyzing, and disseminating relevant intelligence information and providing the valued information to various customers promptly.
- Utilized Analyst Notebook, SEDB, WRANGLER, GOLDMINER, CULTWEAVE, SHARKSFIN, and DRAGONTAMERS to gather intelligence information to create enemy networks to conduct Network Predictive Analysis.
SIGINT Analyst
Ft Hood, USA
03.2004 - 11.2005
- Create E-GRAMS/ KLIEGLIGHT/TACREPS/TIPPERS/CRITIC reporting.
- Create TARGET packets tied in with GEOINT information.
- Effectively produce TAR (Target Analysis Reports) using SIGINT platforms, such as SIGINT Navigator, SEDB, GOLDMINER, and WRANGLER.
- Provided PIRs and EEIs to answer CCIRs using COMINT platforms.
- Complete dozens of serialized reports weekly at Fort Hood before heading out to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Education
Master’s Degree Program - Intelligence Studies with a Concentration in Intelligence Operations
AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
08.2025
Bachelor of Science - Bible Theology
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Lynchburg, VA05.2023
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Intelligence Analysis
AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
Charles Town, WV06.2020
Skills
- TS/SCI
- Executive Collaboration
- High-Level Analytical Writing
- Communication
- MIP/NIP Congress Justification Books
- Trade-space analysis
- POM urgency understanding
- JCIDS & DAS process knowledge
- Acquisitional approaches
- KPPs management
- KSAs management
- APAs management
- Capabilities Requirement Documents
- JCIDS operational oversight
- Guidance to Key Senior Leaders
- DoD Services collaboration
- CCMDs collaboration
- Defense Agencies collaboration
- Allies collaboration
- Partners collaboration
- SME Middle Tier Acquisition improvements
- RPRDs knowledge
- RFRDs knowledge
- Document coordination
- Stakeholder engagement
- Issue resolution
- Developing proposals
- Analyzing investment opportunities
- Making investment recommendations
- Portfolio lifecycle management
Volunteer Experience
LIFEPATH MINISTRIES, York, Pennsylvania, 06/25, Present, Provide invaluable support to the kitchen staff, providing the homeless with professional service.
Timeline
Senior PPBE Capabilities Portfolio Manager SME
Joint Staff/J2 Force Modernization Action Group
06.2024 - 06.2025
Senior Capabilities Development Analyst
Marc Center
10.2023 - 04.2024
Senior-Level Strategic Requirements & Intelligence Advisor
US SPACE FORCE HQ
06.2022 - 09.2023
Senior Level III Security Officer
USCYBERCOM
08.2021 - 05.2022
SSO
Office of Naval Intelligence
02.2021 - 08.2021
Senior Level III Security Officer
NSA
06.2020 - 12.2020
Senior SIGINT/JCIDS Capabilities Requirements Analyst
US ARMY
01.2019 - 08.2020
SIGINT Capabilities Analyst
US ARMY
09.2016 - 01.2019
SIGINT Instructor
Goodfellow AFB
06.2013 - 09.2016
SIGINT Capabilities Analyst/SSO
Buckley AFB
09.2011 - 06.2013
SIGINT Capabilities Req Analyst
01.2005 - 01.2009
SIGINT Analyst
03.2004 - 11.2005
Master’s Degree Program - Intelligence Studies with a Concentration in Intelligence Operations
AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Bible Theology
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Intelligence Analysis
AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
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