Christopher Ling

An Executive Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, Christopher Ling leads the firm’s business in military intelligence and cybersecurity. Mr. Ling specializes in developing high-level strategies to innovate and improve intelligence support to operations, focusing on quantifying investments to create new value and improve capabilities. He has 20 years of experience managing intelligence and information technology system concept definition, trade analyses, requirements, modeling, and simulations at both the programmatic and the detailed technical levels. He has extensive experience in task leadership and program management, including technical oversight of large-sized technical staffs, financial management, and contract compliance. Additional experience includes analysis and development of decision support system models; development, testing and integration of analytical simulations; and the application of commercial best practices for information management, in new initiatives, i.e., predictive analysis, persistent surveillance, self-aware sensors, dynamic queuing, and content management. For national-level intelligence clients, Mr. Ling has created integrated strategies and budgets in the transformation of the National Security Community, including its organizations, people, processes, and technologies through performance plans, capital planning, operational architectures, and investment control. He has created new planning models that ensure continuous alignment of programs and resources against strategic objectives, i.e., pre-emptive operations, continuous transformation, and effects-based operations. For tactical-level intelligence clients, Mr. Ling has expertise in performing root cause analysis of systems to diagnose performance, costs, and operational risks. His experience encompasses several disciplines including: all-source analysis, deliberate and time-sensitive target development, battle damage assessment, collection management, high-value-individual identification and tracking, open source intelligence, and information management. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Cambridge University and won a National Science Foundation fellowship for advanced physics at Harvard University.