Statecraft

Sherman to become third straight IC CIO with connections back to CIA

Sherman will join the ODNI after spending the last several years in the CIA helping to incorporate open source intelligence and capabilities into the IC IT Enterprise (ICITE).

Sherman has spent his entire 20-plus year career in the intelligence community, first working as a satellite imagery analyst and manager and working as a duty officer in the White House situation room.

He also worked in several senior executive positions at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in areas of analysis, collection, homeland security, agency transformation, and foreign partnerships. Additionally, Sherman served as the principal deputy national intelligence officer for military issues on the National Intelligence Council.

As the IC CIO, Sherman’s main priority will be to bring the ICITE initiative to full operational capability. ODNI started ICITE in 2012 as an umbrella program of several small projects with the goal of standardizing the IT infrastructure for all 17 intelligence agencies at the TS-SCI level to improve efficiency, information sharing and cybersecurity.