John Gannon

John Gannon is president of BAE Systems' Intelligence & Security.

Based in Reston, Virginia, and employing 6,600 people across the United States, Intelligence & Security provides innovative network solutions and mission-enabling information technology, analysis, and mission support solutions broadly extending across the defense, intelligence, and civilian market places.

Gannon previously was vice president of the company's Global Analysis business, supporting U.S. government and corporate analysis with staffing, training, management consulting, expert networks, analytic tools, research, outsourced analysis, and other services.

Prior to joining BAE Systems in 2005, Gannon spent 24 years at the CIA, serving as the agency's deputy director for intelligence, staff director for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, and heading the White House team that created the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.

A former U.S. Navy officer and Vietnam veteran, he retired in 1990 with the rank of captain. President George W. Bush awarded him the National Security Medal, the country's highest intelligence honor.

Gannon holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Holy Cross College and master's and doctorate degrees in history from Washington University. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, currently teaching a graduate seminar in the university's National Security Studies Program.