Keynote Speaker

Lowell (Jake) Jacoby
Executive Vice President
National Solutions Business Group

Lowell (Jake) Jacoby is Executive Vice President of the National Solutions Group (NSG) of CACI International Inc, an information technology and network services company with fiscal 2006 revenue of $1.76 billion.

This organization leads the company in developing CACI solutions for the members of the National Intelligence Community and for increasing intelligence sharing across the national and homeland security communities. The group has made CACI an industry leader in knowledge management; document conversion (imaging, electronic, and optical character recognition) and document exploitation; records and case management; intelligence analysis, system, and application development; intelligence dissemination and network management; systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support; multimedia productions; and life-cycle system integration.

Mr. Jacoby joined CACI in January of 2006 as NSG’s Executive Vice President for Strategic Intelligence. In this position, he was responsible for shaping new business opportunities for CACI in the intelligence and homeland security arenas. These responsibilities included helping to develop strategic plans and lending his expertise in developing end-to-end and community-wide solutions.

The former Navy Vice Admiral (VADM) has 37 years of military and intelligence leadership experience. Mr. Jacoby culminated his active duty career as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency with key responsibilities supporting national authorities, combatant commanders and the warfighter, and he played a leading role in the global war on terrorism. His extensive military career included 20 consecutive years as a senior intelligence officer at numerous duty stations. He led the effort to create a functional command for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and brought the new command to initial operational capability.

Mr. Jacoby’s leadership in defense intelligence transformation and his key role in national intelligence reform were recognized by the award of three Defense Distinguished Service Medals, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. He has also received numerous U.S. and foreign awards.

Mr. Jacoby has remained active in Intelligence Community and associated efforts as a member of various boards, study groups, committees and as a mentor for young intelligence professionals. In addition, he regularly participates as a speaker and panelist at conferences and symposia concerning intelligence and national security issues.