K. Stuart Shea

Chief Operating Officer

Stu Shea was named chief operating officer on March 5, 2012. Prior to that, Shea served as president of SAIC's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group. Headquartered in McLean, Va., the group has nearly 13,000 employees, and provides support for customers across the full spectrum of national security programs. The group delivers quick reaction, manned and unmanned airborne, maritime, space, and ground-based surveillance and reconnaissance systems, and builds intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination solutions that optimize decision making in high rate, large volume, and complex mission-critical data environments. The group's mission support personnel deliver expertise in geospatial production, intelligence analysis, technical operations, biometrics, human terrain mapping, and linguistics to a broad intelligence offering, as well as developing technologies to defeat terrorism.

Prior to joining SAIC in October 2005, Shea served as vice president, space and intelligence, in the TASC Business Unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Under his leadership, the unit provided mission support to the 16 agencies under the purview of Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense's space superiority programs.

Earlier, he held several positions with PAR Technology Corporation and served as an imagery analyst and remote sensing specialist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program.

In 2003, Shea was named to the 12-member National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which was established by Congress to review the full range of current research and development programs in the intelligence community.

Shea is the founder, CEO, and board chairman for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, an internationally recognized educational service foundation that has received considerable attention through its annual GEOINT Symposium. Currently, he is chairman of the board for two SAIC subsidiaries: CloudShield Technologies, Inc.; and Science, Engineering and Technology Associates Corporation (SET). He is an internationally recognized author and has served on several major international refereed journal editorial boards. He has served as a committee member, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Marine Board; is a former national director, Cartography and Geographic Information Society; is a fellow of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping; and has served as a member of the Sustaining Member Council for the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He is a 2009 recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award for the top executives in the IT industry. He currently serves as a member of the University of Kansas' College of Liberal Arts & Sciences' Advisory Board and has previously served as a member of the advisory board of the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering and the Advisory Board of Geospatial21/Kidz Online.

Shea received a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kansas. In addition, he is a graduate of numerous executive education programs, including the Darden School of the University of Virginia, Harvard Business School, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and The George Washington University's School of Business and Public Management.