Problems and challenges of the CIO of NCIS
Christopher W. Cote,
NCIS
The
Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS, investigates major
criminal and terrorist activities impacting the Department of the Navy.
This vital work crosses many boundaries and domains, in many countries
and on Navy vessels. For the Agents and Analysts to accomplish the
NCIS mission, information technology must work, it is the backbone of
NCIS. When an Agent is in Afghanistan, Iraq, South America, Japan,
Massachusetts, or on board the USS Roosevelt, they need the ability to
quickly receive the necessary information from numerous databases and
communicate information securely. The Command Information Officer (CIO)
for NCIS is responsible for ensuring IT supports the NCIS mission and
people to the maximum capability. This talk will look at some of the
responsibilities, problems and challenges of the NCIS CIO.
Special Agent
Christopher W. Cote was born in Springfield, MA and is a graduate of Stonehill
College, North Easton, MA.
He joined the Naval Investigative Service in April1987, serving at the NIS Resident
Agency in Newport, RI.
In August1989, Special Agent Cote was assigned to the NIS Resident Agency, U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where he served until June 1992. Special Agent Cote returned to Newport, RI
where he worked criminal investigations and counterintelligence until 2000.
Special Agent Cote entered the supervisory
ranks in November 2000, as a Supervisory Special Agent in Okinawa, Japan.
In this capacity, he
supervised criminal, counterintelligence and force protection operations in
support of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force. In May 2004 he
was assigned as the Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Operations,
NCISHQ Washington, DC. In January 2005,
Special Agent Cote was promoted to GS-14 and selected as Division Chief for the
newly formed Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) Program Management
Office, Washington, DC.
In October 2006, Special Agent Cote was promoted
to GS-15 and selected to serve as the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Marine
Corps West Field Office, Camp
Pendleton, California.
He directed all criminal, counter terrorism and criminal investigative
operations in support of Marine Corps Installations West and the First
Marine Expeditionary Force.
Special Agent Cote returned
to NCISHQ in August 2008 as the Deputy Assistant Director for Information
Sharing and the LInX Program, directing and managing a unique law enforcement
information sharing initiative in ten regional areas throughout the U.S., involving
more than seven hundred local, county, state and federal law enforcement
agencies in an effort to solve crimes and prevent terrorism.
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