Gus Hunt currently serves as the chief technology officer for the chief information officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In this capacity, Gus is responsible for setting the strategic technology direction to enable CIA’s missions, for driving the rapid insertion and adoption of new capabilities to keep pace with technology change in the commercial sector, and for engaging actively across the IC to share and communicate IT solutions.
Previously, Gus served as the director of Applications Services for the CIA. In this role, he was charged with building IT systems to support and enable effective execution of the CIA’s missions and business. Gus also set the vision and direction for applications development at the CIA: driving the investment and development process to build core and common services, constructing the enterprise data layer, bringing in training and coaching to drive rapid adoption and effective use of Agile Development within Applications Services, and implementing earned value_management and total_cost_of_ownership business processes to dramatically improve management decision effectiveness.
Gus joined the CIA in 1985 as an analyst and subsequently served in various technical leadership roles, including director of Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE), chair of the CIA Architecture Review Board and the Architecture and Systems Engineers Occupational Panel, and chief of the CIO’s Advanced Technology Group within the Directorate of Intelligence (DI). Gus also served as chief of Research and Development for the director of Central Intelligence’s (DCI) Crime and Narcotics Center and deputy chief of the Operations Support Group in the DCI’s Non_Proliferation Center.
Before joining the Agency, Gus spent seven years in the private sector as an aerospace engineer designing advanced manned space flight systems and satellite orbital transfer vehicles. He holds an ME in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University and is married with two grown children.