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Rachel Boggs

Manassas,VA

Summary

Exceptional leader talented at organizational development, communications solutions, instructional design, and problem solving with complex raw data. Over 13 years of experience in the Intelligence Community, with strong command of conducting full-spectrum human intelligence operations, all-source targeting, and SIGINT instruction. Over 5 years of direct support to a special operations customer, to include 40 months of forward deployed experience in Afghanistan and Iraq. TS/SCI Credential, last adjudicated in AUG 2017; CI Poly adjudicated in JAN 2021.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Training Program Manager - SIGINT

Nakupuna Solutions
Reston, VA
07.2022 - Current
  • Demonstrated experience in the ability and skills to manage multiple projects, keep track of, or adjust, existing tasks while identifying new tasks and expectations as projects evolve
  • Perform detailed work with little guidance and interact in a positive manner with other government and industry personnel
  • Work under pressure and to adapt quickly in a changing environment and synthesize information and draft summaries and reports
  • Alternated training methods to diversify instruction, strengthen learning opportunities and enhance program success.
  • Evaluated success of training programs and recommended improvements to upper management to enhance effectiveness.
  • Delivered SIGINT technical training sessions in an in-person environment.

HUMINT Targeting Officer

Peraton
Washington D.C., VA
03.2021 - 06.2022

SME-level HUMINT Targeting Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is the highest level position for this contract. Duties include application of advanced all-source targeting methodologies against strategic collection requirements, network development, and direct support to clandestine HUMINT collection platforms.

  • SME on F3EAD targeting methodology implementation against hard target country issues
  • Production of trace responses, HUMINT lead cables, asset validation, and technical writing for foreign release
  • Network development to identify people, relationships, and organizations related to hard target country emerging and disruptive technology, artificial intelligence, dual-use technology procurement, foreign intelligence actors, malign cyber actors, and biological warfare
  • Expertise in external agency coordination to facilitate the production of intelligence materials releasable to foreign governments
  • Deconfliction and coordination with collection managers and operations support officers, at an agency and theater of operations level
  • Direct support to HUMINT-enabled technical operations (HETO)
  • Development of advanced capabilities for HUMINT targeting capability within a strategic debriefing service

All-Source Targeting Officer

CACI-Wexford Group International
Reston, VA
08.2018 - 02.2021

Technical SME and project manager for CACI-Wexford's Asymmetric Warfare & Special Operations Division, joint improvised-threat defeat organization (JIDO), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Duties for this position included forward deployed all-source targeting officer embedded with the Joint Special Operations Enterprise, provision of near real-time targeting support, and tailored products for the special operations warfighter. Significant areas of specialty include:

  • Countering VEOs to include Islamic State in the Levant (ISIS), ISIS-Khorasan, Tablian, Haqqani Network, and AF/PAK splinter groups associated with Al-Qaeda
  • Network development to identify people, relationships, and organizations related to VEOs
  • Collaboration with IA/IC Partners to facilitate targeting efforts
  • Prioritization, Management, and Forecasting of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Platforms
  • SIGINT Technical Systems
  • HUMINT Asset Validation to assist decisive high value target (HVT) kill/capture operations

Senior Intelligence Operations Advisor, 60+ Hrs/wk

Raytheon
Kabul, Afghanistan
02.2018 - 08.2018

Train, advise, assist, and mentor Joint Special Operations Community senior leaders and host nation Special Forces. Success in this role was highly dependent on building and maintaining rapport with high-level Department of Defense customers, and required extreme efficiency in the realm of communication strategies. The organization-client was entrusted to execute the highest priorities of the Afghanistan Ministery of Defense and the Joint Special Operations Community to conduct international counterterrorism initiatives.

  • Forecast, plan, and execute tailored tools and methods to support improved future-state organizational design and alignment of an joint Tier 1 Strike Force conducting counterterrorism operations
  • Conduct organizational assessment focused on counterintelligence and the prevention of insider threats to U.S. and foreign allied personnel
  • Provide intensive training development for a full spectrum of operational intelligence professionals to include SIGINT, HUMINT, counterintelligence, all-source targeting officers, and geospatial (GEOINT) analysts
  • Draft, execute and manage a communication plan, to include consideration of multiple languages and coordination with both U.S. and Afghanistan military officials
  • Define activities to support change and transition initiatives, to include Pre-Deployment Site Surveys (PDSS) to enable successful action against high profile attacks (HPA) on locations of importance for U.S. interests and its allies

Senior HUMINT Instructor, 40+ Hrs/wk

Raytheon
Fort Huachuca, AZ
09.2015 - 01.2018

Senior Instructor at the HUMINT Training Joint Center of Excellence (HT-JCoE) Source Operations Course (SOC). Trained cat 2 HUMINT operations tradecraft, intelligence operations, and provided instruction and design support for the Defense Intelligence Agency's premier advanced HUMINT training course.

  • Selected above peers to supervise, mentor, and evaluate performance of four senior intelligence professionals, whom performed duties at the GS-12 and GS-13 level
  • Led analysis and design working groups to create requirements to develop the right client solution; hand-selected to lead initiatives to revise and develop scenarios for SOC. This resulted in design and implementation of realistic roles and intelligence products
  • Evaluated peer instructors' role playing, instruction, and critique techniques to ensure standardization of cadre methodologies and student experience
  • Conduct CI threat assessments to protect tradecraft and instruction, and develop complex scenarios, roles, and intelligence products for medium CI threat environment
  • Incorporation of expertise in threat finance and anti-money laundering into development of course curriculum to include roles, scenarios and products

Corporate Counterintelligence Consultant, 20+ hrs/wk

Joanna Bailey Designs, LLC
Charlotte, NC
06.2013 - 08.2015

Consultant for a multi-faceted company with a wide range of CEO initiatives. Project management with a focus targeted demographics on an international scale. Each project demanded full scope challenges of unique vision and mission, communication processes, culture development, and branding for products ranging from online publications to international 501(c) partnerships.

  • Developed and delivered comprehensive plans for global communications through many channels; preparation of the environment for future business sites, physical locations assessments and overt HUMINT atmospheric collection
  • Developed tailored social engineering methods, specialized investigative techniques, and deception detection in the interview process, resulting in minimization of exposure to proprietary information
  • Share best practices, industry knowledge, and personal expertise to educate clients in formal and ad hoc settings, specialized in the prevention of insider threat and corporate espionage, resulting in the identification and elimination of 2 insider threats
  • Prepare formal counterintelligence reports of investigations and memos
  • Briefed CEO/CFO to influence decision making for corporate operational environment

HUMINT Collector, 60+ Hrs/wk

United States Army
Logar Province, Afghanistan
06.2012 - 06.2013

Conduct controlled MSO for two full scope operations in addition to three additional HUMINT platforms, to provide positive intelligence resulting in successful capture of over 20 HVI personalities, 10 weapons cache recoveries, and numerous improvised explosive device (IED) recovery. Hand Selected by the 173D ABCT to provide tactical HUMINT support to Joint Special Operations Forces operating in the battle space. Significant contributions include:

  • Selected above peers to conduct tactical operational HUMINT, F3EAD targeting, and Female Engagement Team (FET) support, to include tactical questioning and sensitive site exploitation, to Joint Special Operations Forces conducting F3EAD and Attack the Network (AtN) operations to disrupt and defeat threat network
  • Forecasted, planned, and managed HUMINT Collectors conducting over 35 continuous military source operations in three different geographic locations
  • Conducted over 30 interrogations and managed a Field Detention Site, resulting in the long term detention of over 25 enemy combatants over a 3-month period
  • Conducted FORMICA debriefings to provide credible intelligence for source vetting and positive intelligence collection
  • Executed counterintelligence program in the absence of credentialed CI personnel, resulting in the identification of over 15 insider threats on FOB Shank
  • Employed CELLEX, PCASS, TTL devices, DOMEX, hand writing analysis, and forensic collection for vetting and investigative purposes
  • Conducted forensic evidence collection following catastrophic VBIED attack on FOB Shank, resulting in identification of bombers and positive HUMINT collection on network HVIs responsible for attacks

HUMINT Collector, 50+ hrs/wk

United States Army
Bamberg
12.2010 - 05.2012

Selected over peers as HUMINT Platoon Sergeant and Training LNO for 173D ABCT conducting readiness training for upcoming deployment operations. Significant contributions include:

  • Liaison with partnered U.S., NATO Military, and Jordanian Special Forces to answer strategic HUMINT requirements and coordinate intelligence efforts for a total of 120 days over six different joint training events
  • Conduct tactical training, cultural immersion training, sensitive site exploitation, F3EAD targeting familiarization, and HUMINT specific instruction to prepare 20 HUMINT Collectors and 5 HUMINT Collection Team Leaders to aggressively conduct controlled MSO and Interrogation
  • Forecast, plan, and execute over 80 hours of urban and rural MSO training in Germany, taking advantage of a foreign cultural environment
  • Improved readiness creating tailored capabilities briefings, working groups, and tactical training scenarios, resulting in maximum ability for 40 Commissioned Army Officers to employ intelligence assets in an asymmetric forward deployed environment
  • LNO for forecasting, planning, and execution of static line airborne operations with U.S. and NATO partners in an effort to build rapport with allied nations

HUMINT Collector, 60+ hrs/wk

United States Army
Logar Province, Afghanistan
11.2009 - 11.2010

Conducted controlled MSO and provided tactical HUMINT support for US, NATO, and Special Operations Community elements, to include collaboration with JSOC on three controlled HUMINT operations. Hand selected by 173D ABCT to conduct aggressive tactical HUMINT operations and lead HUMINT teams spread across three geographic locations. Significant contributions include:

  • Provided support to U.S. and NATO Special Operations conducting controlled MSO, tactical questioning, field interrogations, and sensitive site exploitation, resulting in kill/capture of over 10 HVIs, and recovery of weapons and explosives
  • Senior Intelligence Analyst for Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG) Focused Targeting Force (FTF) initiative; led an embedded intelligence collection/exploitation team within a specialized BDE surgical targeting element conducting F3EAD and TST AtN operations
  • Conducted overt tactical MSO for joint operations with FTF and U.S. law enforcement to collect actionable intelligence to recover missing and kidnapped U.S. persons, to include positive intelligence on location of POW Bowe Bergdhal, and recovery of two KIA U.S. personnel
  • Liaised with Afghan Law Enforcement and U.S. contracted Law Enforcement Mentors to synthesize controlled MSO and multiple intelligence disciplines with sound evidence collection to ensure successful capture and long term detention of over 200 enemy combatants
  • Trained and employed CELLEX, TTL devices, DOMEX, hand writing analysis, and forensic collection for vetting and investigative purposes
  • Biometrics collection with Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE), Biometric Automated Toolkit (BAT), and Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit (SEEK)

HUMINT SME, 50+ hrs/wk

United States Army
Bamberg, Germany
02.2009 - 10.2009

Selected over peers to provide tailored instruction to 20 HUMINT collectors in preparation for upcoming deployment operations. Significant contributions include:

  • Instructional design for the 173D Airborne Brigade Combat Team by crafting tailored capabilities briefings and tactical training scenarios for 20 Commissioned Officers
  • Provided tactical training, cultural immersion training, and HUMINT specific instruction to prepare 20 HUMINT Collectors to conduct Military Source Operations in a deployed environment
  • LNO for forecasting, planning, and execution of static line airborne operations with U.S. and NATO partners

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Psychology

Florida Institute Of Technology
Melbourne, FL
2018

Associate of Arts - Intelligence Studies

Cochise College Sierra Vista Campus
Sierra Vista, AZ
2017

Skills

  • Controlled Military Source Operations
  • Operational Forecasting, Planning, & Execution
  • National Policy & Regulation Compliance
  • HUMINT Targeting
  • All-source Targeting, F3EAD methodology
  • Open Source (OSINT) Analysis
  • Signals (SIGINT) Instruction and Analysis
  • Sensitive Site Exploitation
  • Captured Enemy Material Exploitation
  • Surveillance Detection
  • Technical Writing
  • Tailored curriculum development for HUMINT tradecraft and targeting

Tools and Databases

  • Formally trained (and subsequently trained others) on Proton II, Voltron, DataXplorer, Attack the Network Tool Suite (ANTS), Analyst Notebook (Irregular Warfare Analyst methodology), iSpy, Google Earth, Red Wedding, Chimera, and Skope Tools
  • Report writing experience with HOT-R, CIDNE, GCOMS
  • End-user of Berber Hunter Tool Kit (BHTK), Babel X, TIIDE, BI2R, Identity Detect, Lucky/NGT, WIRE, Chrome, Rockstar, Harmony, Qlix, HydraDL, Mosaic, Python, KaChing, Palantir, FADE/MIST
  • Field Implementation of Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS), Blackbird Technologies TTL devices, Cellbrite, Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE), Biometric Automated Toolkit (BAT), and Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit (SEEK), DSGS-A

Certification

  • Target Network Profiling Course- 2021: DIA
  • Source Operations Course (SOC)- 2012: HT-JCoE, top 10% of class
  • Defense Strategic Debriefer Course (DSDC)- 2009: HT-JCoE, top 10% of class
  • High Threat Meeting (HTM) Instructor Certification - 2015: HT-JCoE
  • Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification - 2020: DIA
  • Joint Special Operations Intelligence Brigade Fast Track Program - 2019
  • JIDO Improvised-Threat Analysis Course - 2018
  • JIDO Application of SIGINT Analysis Course - 2018
  • Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC) - 2015
  • Advanced Threat Finance - 2017: DIA
  • Foundation Instructional Techniques - 2016
  • Lean Six Sigma Certified - 2016

Timeline

Training Program Manager - SIGINT

Nakupuna Solutions
07.2022 - Current

HUMINT Targeting Officer

Peraton
03.2021 - 06.2022

All-Source Targeting Officer

CACI-Wexford Group International
08.2018 - 02.2021

Senior Intelligence Operations Advisor, 60+ Hrs/wk

Raytheon
02.2018 - 08.2018

Senior HUMINT Instructor, 40+ Hrs/wk

Raytheon
09.2015 - 01.2018

Corporate Counterintelligence Consultant, 20+ hrs/wk

Joanna Bailey Designs, LLC
06.2013 - 08.2015

HUMINT Collector, 60+ Hrs/wk

United States Army
06.2012 - 06.2013

HUMINT Collector, 50+ hrs/wk

United States Army
12.2010 - 05.2012

HUMINT Collector, 60+ hrs/wk

United States Army
11.2009 - 11.2010

HUMINT SME, 50+ hrs/wk

United States Army
02.2009 - 10.2009

Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Psychology

Florida Institute Of Technology

Associate of Arts - Intelligence Studies

Cochise College Sierra Vista Campus
  • Target Network Profiling Course- 2021: DIA
  • Source Operations Course (SOC)- 2012: HT-JCoE, top 10% of class
  • Defense Strategic Debriefer Course (DSDC)- 2009: HT-JCoE, top 10% of class
  • High Threat Meeting (HTM) Instructor Certification - 2015: HT-JCoE
  • Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification - 2020: DIA
  • Joint Special Operations Intelligence Brigade Fast Track Program - 2019
  • JIDO Improvised-Threat Analysis Course - 2018
  • JIDO Application of SIGINT Analysis Course - 2018
  • Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC) - 2015
  • Advanced Threat Finance - 2017: DIA
  • Foundation Instructional Techniques - 2016
  • Lean Six Sigma Certified - 2016
Rachel Boggs