Biography - Justin L Abold

Justin Lewis Abold is currently on leave from the Federal government to pursue graduate studies in Criminology at Oxford University, focused on international policing and international / transnational crime. His last assignment was as Acting Director of the recently established National Applications Office. Previously, he served for over a year as Acting Director, Plans and Integration Division and before that as Deputy Director, Plans and Integration and Deputy Director, Policy within the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security. Before leaving the analytic side of the house, Justin was Chief, Current Assessments Branch, where he led a team of homeland security analysts supporting the Secretary, DHS with assessments of the terrorist threat to the homeland, helping fulfill the departmental mandate to administer the Homeland Security Advisory System. Justin joined DHS in October 2003 as a Senior Intelligence Analyst in the Homeland Security Operations Center (now called the National Operations Center).

Prior to joining DHS, Justin was an active duty Air Force officer assigned to the Directorate for Intelligence (J-2), The Joint Staff, Department of Defense. Within the J-2, his last position was Operations Officer, Office of Intelligence Operations, Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism (JITF-CT). Justin was responsible for helping stand up and manage the 45-person Warning and Fusion Center, the Department of Defense’s national 24/7 combating terrorism watch chartered to be the focal point for operationalizing intelligence in support of Force Protection. He joined the JITF-CT after 16 months in the National Military Joint Intelligence Center, where he served as National Crisis Validation Officer and Production Manager.

In addition to his assignment on The Joint Staff, Justin previously served in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Foreign Materiel Program office and was stationed with the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale AFB, California as Chief, Intelligence Collection Systems. While a part of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, he had the opportunity to support flying operations from an overseas detachment as well as to deploy in support of Stabilization Force (SFOR), Bosnia-Herzegovina.