Annette Redmond

Annette L. Redmond joined the Roosevelt Group in March 2024.  She completed an extraordinary 40 year government career.  Her accomplishments in the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, and Department of State built and reformed numerous organizations.

Annette initially served as an Army Military Intelligence officer for more than 21 years. She led intelligence operations as a JTF J2, commander, operational intelligence expert, and soldier at tactical and strategic echelons, command, and staff elements, always driving to mission success. Her duties and accomplishments have cut across many facets of intelligence operations, analysis, information technology, data management and system interoperability. She commanded several units, including in the Opposing Force at the National Training Center.  She additionally deployed as a Joint Task Force J2 in the Levant, served multiple Combatant Commands as well as leading strategy and innovation efforts in the Pentagon at both Army and Joint Staff.

Annette subsequently completed over 18 years as a Senior Executive in the Department of Defense and State Department.  She served as the Army Enterprise Advisor to the Commanding General (CG) of US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). There she provided senior intelligence operations expertise and advice on national, joint, coalition, and Army Intelligence requirements. She later became the Army’s Intelligence CIO. In this capacity, she directed and oversaw the global Intelligence Information Management/ Information Technology (IM/IT) capabilities for over 57,000 Intelligence military, civilian, and contractor professionals.

Annette joined State Department where she provided executive leadership and management of the Department’s Intelligence Information Technology enterprise and served as the Department’s first Intelligence Chief Information Officer (CIO). She led the Department’s modernization efforts in the Intelligence Information Enterprise in partnership with the Intelligence Community (IC). She delivered, secured and protected an expanding intelligence network and IT systems providing Intelligence access to both foreign policy and intelligence professionals throughout the Department

She assumed the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Intelligence Policy and Coordination (IPC) in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) on 3 September 2019. She directed the development, coordination, and implementation of policy relating to a broad range of intelligence operations and counterintelligence activities. DAS Redmond provided strategic direction to the Department of State’s support to the Intelligence Community and foreign policy oversight of sensitive intelligence operations.

Her duties and accomplishments have cut across many facets of intelligence operations, cyber, information technology, data management and system interoperability. She is known for her innovation, collaborative leadership, and mission accomplishment in high stress environments.

Ms. Redmond holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Norwich University, an Master of Science degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University, and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Certification from the National Defense University’s College of Information and Cyberspace.