Problems and challenges of the CIO of NCIS
Dr. Linda Wilbanks,
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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