La'Naia Jones

Deputy CIO

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Ms. La’Naia Jones was selected by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to serve as the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Intelligence Community in July 2018.

Prior to her selection Ms. Jones served as the Chief of Transformation and Transition for a large global IT service provider within the Department of Defense, delivering the full spectrum information technology services to a global footprint spanning all time zones. She provided technical expertise and leadership for enterprise technologies delivering network communications, utility hosting, physical/virtual desktops, wireless capabilities, business systems and many other services. Leading the operational IT implementation and overseeing a multitude of service providers, she provides the integration, governance and understanding of the technical architecture for stakeholders and customers alike.

Ms. Jones previously was the Technical Director for a large global IT service provider, providing a subset of the current IT portfolio from 2009-2017. Through technical expertise, knowledge and experience of integrating new technologies to modernize the DoD IT landscape, she architected collaborative infrastructures and led specialized efforts in the Asian and Middle Eastern theaters.

Ms. Jones also spent over two years as a Technical Director and Lead on various hostile area deployments in austere tactical environments, supporting Middle East, European Command (EUCOM), African Command (AFRICOM) and Central Command (CENTCOM) missions. She collaborated extensively with EUCOM, AFRICOM, and CENTCOM planners to provide communications and technical capabilities in support of military missions throughout diverse locations.

Serving as the Technical Lead for a large global IT service provider in Japan from 2005-2009, Ms. Jones strengthened foreign relationships and enhanced domestic partnerships through resolution of complex, multifaceted IT entanglements of technology organizations.

In other previous positions, Ms. Jones served as the Chief of Utility Cloud hosting for a DoD organization providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) compute to various U.S. government partners and entities.

Ms. Jones has earned a dual Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She received a Master of Science in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College.

Ms. Jones is a Maryland native, growing up throughout Anne Arundel County and currently residing in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

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