Kimberly King

As the Director of DIA's Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), Ms. Kimberly Marshall King leads engineers and scientists in all-source scientific and technical intelligence analysis of foreign ballistic missile systems, air and missile defense systems, anti-satellite systems, anti-tank guided missile systems, directed energy weapons systems, and associated command and control systems. Her mission focus is ensuring timely, accurate assessments of the characteristics, performance, operations, and vulnerabilities of foreign weapons to support Department of Defense development of effective systems, countermeasures, and survivability equipment to support our soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines. 

Leading MSIC, Ms. King also oversees all operational and infrastructure activities at the Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence, ensuring comprehensive facility management and support for the entire DIA enterprise workforce on Redstone Arsenal. Additionally, she is responsible for all external Agency engagements with critical customers, such as the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Army Materiel Command, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other key partners on Redstone Arsenal.

Prior to this assignment, Ms. King served as the Chief, Defense Counterproliferation Office (DCP), and Defense Intelligence Integration Officer for Counterproliferation, leading an analytic office covering counterproliferation and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) issues with an emphasis on global proliferation threats, foreign nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare programs, WMD-related arms and technology transfer, and technical exploitation and assessment of foreign weapon systems. 

Other DIA assignments include Deputy Chief, DCP; Division Chief, Military Forces Analysis Office; and multiple positions with the Underground Facility Analysis Center, including Office SIO. Ms. King deployed on behalf of DIA as a member of the Iraq Survey Group in 2003. Before joining DIA in 2001 as a Middle East analyst with the Foreign Denial and Deception Division, she served as an intelligence analyst with the Department of Air Force, 497th Intelligence Group, facilitating the production of System Threat Assessment Reports and Threat Environment Descriptions for key space and missile programs. 

Ms. King holds a Master of Arts in Arab Studies degree from Georgetown University; a Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence degree from the National Intelligence University; a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies degree from U.S. Naval War College (USNWC), where she was a distinguished graduate; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College. Her awards and honors include the National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction, multiple DNI Exceptional Performance Awards, and the James D. Forrestal Award for Excellence in Strategy and Force Planning from USNWC. 

Ms. King was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in March 2017. She resides in Madison, AL with her husband, Christopher, and their four children.