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With a career spanning over four decades as an intelligence professional, Don Hammond (currently retired) has been at the forefront of our nation’s intelligence and counterintelligence efforts. Culminating his military career, at Schriever AFB, Colorado, Don was the Air Force Space Warfare Center’s (SWC) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) lead analyst responsible for providing national, multi-spectral and commercial imagery, as well as imagery exploitation and dissemination capabilities to military units for TENCAP national-level exercises and training simulations. Additionally, Don concurrently managed multi-million dollar assets, supervised several government contracted personnel, and wrote operations plans that provided fused imagery and intelligence products to warfighters and decision-makers in multiple operational theaters.
As an intelligence officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Don has served in several key positions (team lead and project lead) where he produced or oversaw the production of thousands of first and second phase national intelligence products for the NGA, while coordinating with national command authorities, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and military commands. A winner of numerous prestigious military and national intelligence awards, Don has also briefed hundreds of key military and civilian personnel to include US leaders and foreign heads of state.
Don originally hails from Newark, New Jersey, but considers himself a citizen of the world from having lived or worked for 14 years in four overseas locations and 26 years in four U.S. states.
Don attended Newark’s Blessed Sacrament Grammar School, St.Benedict’s Preparatory School, Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences, and the Community College of the Air Force.