Keynote Speaker

Mr. Adam T. Kraft

Adam Taichi Kraft was one of our Nation’s intelligence collection leaders as a Federal Civilian Intelligence Officer within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) from August 2009 until August 2015. He rose from a regional desk officer to senior intelligence officer of the Global Intelligence Operations Center, then Intelligence Collection Strategist for the Middle East, and finally the Senior Intelligence Collection Strategist for the Middle East and Africa.
 
Adam has been certified by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Dr. Michael Vickers, and confirmed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA), as an Intelligence Collection Manager via the Certified Collection Management Professional Fundamentals Program (CCMP-F). He has conducted operations planning and executed countless missions in geospatial imagery, signals intercept and cyberspace exploitation, determining emanating phenomena, integration of open literature or media, forensics collection, and human intelligence or HUMINT. He had served as an intelligence operations leader under DIA Directors Burgess, Flynn, and Stewart and received numerous awards from U.S. and Allied leaders for success on the modern intelligence battlespace. Before his civilian appointment in the national intelligence community, Adam was an active duty Army operations officer. He served in multiple units and joint assignments within the U.S. as well as in Europe and the Middle East ending his career with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment [now known as the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division]. Adam was medically retired as a Major at Womack Army Community Hospital in August 2009 after becoming seriously ill in Iraq.
 
An Eagle Scout from the Chicago Suburbs, he graduated from both the Marion Military Institute in Alabama and the United States Military Academy at West Point where he also volunteered for the Chemical Corps. Major Kraft earned a MS degree from a joint U.S. Army Chemical School and Webster University program in Environmental Engineering and Hazardous Materials Consequence Management in 2006. He is a recipient of multiple military awards to include two Bronze Star medals.

Adam is currently a consultant based in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex providing and implementing solutions in the finance, technology, security, supply chain, defense, and human capital sectors.