Jennifer Kron

Ms. Jennifer Kron was named the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the National Security Agency (NSA) in April 2022. As Deputy CIO, she is responsible for optimizing NSA’s IT strategy to ensure the mission is secure, stable, flexible, cost-efficient, and legally compliant. Ms. Kron also serves as the Senior Champion for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing IC Affinity Network.

 Prior to joining NSA, MS. Kron served for 16 years at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). From 2021-2022, Ms. Kron was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Intelligence Community and Deputy Assistant DNI. In that role, she co-led the office that enables the DNI to execute her statutory authority to formulate and justify the National Intelligence Program Budget, oversee budget execution, and facilitate IC fiscal accountability and financial management improvement. Ms. Kron served on a Joint Duty Assignment in Australia from 2017-2020. In the Australian Office of National Intelligence, she oversaw the development and implementation of intelligence integration initiatives. Concurrently, Ms. Kron led efforts to improve information-sharing and interoperability of geospatial intelligence among the Five Eyes partners as the CIO of the Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence.

 From 2015 to 2017 Ms. Kron was the Deputy CIO of the Intelligence Community and Deputy Assistant DNI; she was also Acting IC CIO and Assistant DNI from May to September 2017. In these positions, she directed and managed activities related to the information technology for the IC and led groundbreaking initiatives to advance integration, information-sharing, security, and efficiency across agencies. Before joining the IC CIO, Ms. Kron served as Director of the Mission Integration Division at ODNI from 2014-2015 and as the National Intelligence Manager (NIM) for South Asia from 2012-2014. As NIM, she was responsible for integrating the IC on analytic and collection issues pertaining to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India and was the senior advisor to the DNI on South Asia issues. She had earlier served as Deputy NIM for South Asia and Director of Community Affairs for the office.

 From 2007 to 2009, Ms Kron was a Group Chief for the IC Chief Financial Officer, leading teams of program and budget analysts conducting studies of cross-agency intelligence issues to shape major resource decisions.

 Ms. Kron’s experience also included eight years as a Program Examiner in the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing the policies and programs of the FBI, US Coast Guard, and Department of Education in a series of positions of increasing responsibility. She began her career as a Presidential Management Intern in the Department of Education and completed a Senate fellowship.