From Cold War to Cyber War: Gail Harris, Naval Intelligence Officer

From Cold War to Cyber War: Gail Harris, Naval Intelligence Officer
Wednesday, 10 March; 6:30 pm
“I decided to be unorthodox.”—Gail Harris

When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job
in 1973, she became the first woman to hold such a position. By the time of her
retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy. Her 28-year career included hands-on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo. Captain Harris was at the forefront of one of the newest challenges: cyber warfare, developing intelligence policy for the Computer Network Defense and Computer Network Attack for the Department of Defense. Harris, author of A Woman’s War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy’s First African American Female Intelligence Officer, will share her unique experience providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics. She’ll also offer her perspective on the way intelligence is used and sometimes misused.

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