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Jon Nowick
Instructor
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Former Leader of Analytic Red Cell
Department of Homeland Security
E-mail: avanti7700@verizon.net

Areas of Interest
1) intelligence analysis
2) collaboration
3) counterterrorism

Biography
Jon Nowick develops and instructs training courses for the Federal Government designed to enhance analysis on terrorism issues and promote collaboration among US Government agencies.

Before taking this position, Jon Nowick from 2003-2005 conceptualized, developed, and led an “Analytic Red Cell” at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) applying structured analytic techniques to homeland security issues. The program, cited by The Washington Post as an example of the government “employing imagination,” drew on more than 500 experts from around the world to produce more than 40 reports on threats, vulnerabilities, and counter-measures for national, local, and industry officials. Mr. Nowick also co-founded an inter-agency working group to more broadly promote such solutions to homeland and national security issues.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Nowick from 2002-2003 served on the White House’s Homeland Security Transition Planning Office. He identified best practices in the government, the military, and private sector that could be applied to homeland security.

Educated at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A.) in Baltimore, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins’ School for Advanced International Studies (M.A.) in Washington DC, Mr. Nowick has more than 30 years of experience in the US Government as a manager, analyst, liaison representative, and editor in the United States and overseas. While employed at CIA, he wrote and edited several hundred reports for the President and National Security Council Staff on international developments including the historic transformations in the Balkans and Eastern Europe with the end of the Cold War.

He also organized successful governmental-academic conferences, created and directed a US Government trends-forecasting publication, and served on a task force making recommendations for a US post-Cold War strategy.

Mr. Nowick has spoken on homeland security and foreign policy challenges and the use of creative analytic techniques to address them before international, national, state and local, think tank, academic, and citizen forums. He lives with his wife in Bethesda, Maryland.