NATIONAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION
NMIF
2020 Intelligence Awards Banquet
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Celebrate the Future Leaders of the Intelligence Community
John R. Clark
National Military Intelligence Foundation
Col (Ret) John R. Clark, USAF, has served in a variety of senior positions in the Intelligence Community, Air Force Operations, and incorporate senior management. As a corporate manager, he provided WMD lab support and Chem-Bio expertise across a variety of DoD support efforts in Southwest Asia. This included deployments for in-country exploitation of potential threat systems and materials. As a senior acquisition engineer, he provided expertise for the SAF/AQ Strategic Plan that incorporated SAF/IL and AFMC strategic planning into a single document for Life Cycle Planning for Weapons Systems. In addition, he conducted a functional review of Technical Intelligence for the DoD.
For the Air Force, he served in senior Joint and Air Force assignments providing multi-discipline Intelligence for DoD and Policy decision-makers. These include DIA Chief for the Counterdrug Office, DDI for Unified Command support, and DDI for National Military Intelligence Center. Prior to these DIA assignments, he implemented the integration of SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT and S & TI disciplines into the newly formed 692nd Intelligence Wing providing Pacific theater management. The Wing had over 2900 Intelligence personnel in 15 separate subordinate units, and provided raw and finished intelligence to PACOM and the national intelligence community.
For the Air Force, his first operational assignment was in aerial surveillance and electronic warfare, followed by Strategic Air Command SIOP deployments, and also worldwide global surveillance under the PARPRO (Peacetime Aerial Reconnaissance Program). From that assignment, he served in DIA as an all-source analyst, writing numerous classified reports and original analytic analysis of Soviet/Warsaw Pact Radio-Electronic Warfare (REC) threats to US/NATO defenses. He had two briefings selected for the CJCS, and briefed extensively in EUCOM, the Intelligence Community, and the NATO Military Committee. He also was an adjunct professor for the Joint Forces Military College.