Bernie Carpenter

Mr. Carpenter has over 40 years of extensive, unique, “hands-on” National Security and Defense experience. His background ranges from CIA and NSA implementer in Vietnam and Europe to serving as a trusted Senior Information Scientist and Technologist Advisor for the Intelligence Community (IC).He has wide-ranging legal and governance experience that allows him to provide senior-level trusted advice in matters related to federal information policy and law in the development of policy. He has experience implementing guides and systems used across the government that are centered on the creation, use, and protection of information as a foundational element in national security, foreign relations, and transnational terrorism concerns.His experience and education in law, math, engineering and the interdisciplinary field of information sciences gives him remarkable skills and knowledge for advising, developing and implementing heuristic software that emulates the human mindthrough the interpretation of both content and context of the message between writer and reader.Mr. Carpenter is significantly involved in leading and working with Academia, parts of the IC, and IT Commercial companies. He is interested in delving into the problems and solutions of the “ubiquitous digital creations” environment, in order to interpret the properties and behavior of both information and data to ascertain the creator’s intent and purpose for intelligence and security understanding.