On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Members of the CIB’s Applied Intelligence Project (AIP) briefed Ms. Annette Redmond, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Intelligence Policy and Coordination (IPC) in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). Ms. Redmond joined the United States Department of State in 2017 and led the the Department’s modernization efforts in the Intelligence Information Enterprise in partnership with the Intelligence Community (IC). In her most recent role, Ms. Redmond led and directed the development, coordination, and implementation of policy relating to a broad range of intelligence operations and counterintelligence activities. Previously she served in the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense for more than 30 years both as a retired Army officer and senior civilian. She served in senior executive positions at Army most recently as the Army’s Intelligence Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Two paid interns currently serve as directors of the AIP’s Critical Mission Centers. They are surrounded by teams of support officers (also a paid position) who perform daily intelligence collection and analysis tasks throughout the semester. For the past several months, the team has been working on a topic of critical interest to the national security of the United States, which has been assigned by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), which is part of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. Later this semester, the AIP team will be traveling to the NGIC headquarters in Charlottesville, VA, in order to present the findings of their semester-long research.

The AIP analysts briefed Ms. Redmond on their research for approximately 40 minutes, using the briefing conventions of the United States intelligence community. Following the brief, Ms. Redmond offered constructive feedback to the Critical Mission Center teams. Ms. Redmond also compared the format and delivery of the information presented to her with daily briefing tasks that take place in the Department of State and the IC.