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Jan 24, 2025

Intelligence Flags Gather to Welcome New USNA Intel Accessions

The Naval Intelligence Flag wardroom gathered in force at the U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday, 22 January to welcome the seven USNA midshipmen who were selected for intelligence (1830): Midshipmen 1/C Sierra Paoli, Emma Kirby, Andreas Huscher, Cooper Walshe, Jaimeson Meyer, Julia Davidson, and Nathan Li.
Jan 06, 2025

Academic Year 2025-26 Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program

Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) is a tax-exempt educational and charitable Foundation. Through the Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program, NIP recognizes future leaders who’ve exhibited exceptional potential to contribute to naval intelligence and related national security goals.
Dec 20, 2024

Information Warfare Community Changes Status: No Longer Restricted Line

The Secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, officially signed the paperwork, reclassifying Information Warfare Officers from Restricted Line officers to “Line officers performing information warfare duties.”  
Dec 01, 2024

NIP Launches Annual Fundraising Campaign on Giving Tuesday

Donations will directly contribute to NIP's mission of promoting the vital work of Naval Intelligence.
Nov 25, 2024

IW Flag Selections Announced!

Congratulations to Rear Admiral Tom Hendershedt for his selection for promotion to Rear Admiral (Upper half), and to Captain Ben Snell (1830/Navy Intelligence) and Captain Erin Acosta (1800/Navy Oceanography) for their selection for promotion to Rear Admiral (Lower half).
Nov 13, 2024

Project 2032 MOAs Signed Between ONI, NHHC and NIP

As a sign of continued support and forward progress on NIP’s Project 2032 effort, two Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) were signed in late October—one between ONI and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) and one between ONI and NIP.
Nov 13, 2024

Paul Lowell Inducted onto Naval Intelligence Wall of Honor at ONI

A large number of distinguished Naval Intelligence professionals gathered at the National Maritime Intelligence Center on 30 October 2024 to honor the late Paul Lowell as he was inducted onto the Naval Intelligence Wall of Honor. 
Nov 06, 2024

NIP Hears from DNI at Annual Fall Luncheon

NIP held its annual general meeting and fall luncheon on 25 October 2024 at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. The turnout was fantastic, with over 120 members and guests in attendance.
Sep 23, 2024

NIP Chair Featured as Emcee for TMF 9/11 Heroes Run

Against the backdrop of a fire truck with its ladder raised and a large American flag waving in the wind, hundreds of runners gathered on the morning of 22 September in Oakton, Virginia for the annual Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) 9/11 Heroes Run.
Sep 13, 2024

Naval Intelligence Honors Eight Fallen Shipmates on 9/11

ONI held its annual wreath-laying ceremony at the National Maritime Intelligence Center 9/11 Remembrance Garden in Suitland, Maryland on the morning of 9/11 to honor the eight ONI shipmates who were working in CNO-IP and perished in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Aug 29, 2024

ONI’s Command Master Chief Jason Reynolds Selected as NGA Senior Enlisted Leader

The Office of the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced today that Navy Command Master Chief Jason "JR" Reynolds, currently assigned as command master chief, Office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, D.C., has been selected to replace Army Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Baird as command senior enlisted leader for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia.
Aug 02, 2024

VADM Aeschbach Retires, Passes Command of NAVIFOR to VADM Vernazza

Vice Admiral Kelly Aeschbach turned over the reins of Naval Information Forces Command to Vice Admiral Michael Vernazza in a packed ceremony in Suffolk, Virginia on 26 July 2024.
Jun 11, 2024

Two New Members Selected for NIP Board to Represent Marines 

In May, the NIP Board unanimously approved the nominations for Colonel Aaron Tooke, USMCR and Master Gunnery Sergeant (Ret) Scott Stalker to join the Board, representing our U.S. Marine intelligence professionals.
Jun 11, 2024

Major General Jerry Carter Nominated to be Marine Corps’ Next DCI

Major General Melvin “Jerry” Carter has been nominated to be promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as the Marine Corps’ next Deputy Commandant for Information (DCI). If confirmed, Carter will be the fourth DCI since the position was established in 2017.
Jun 10, 2024

ONI’s Holtmeyer Goes the Extra Mile to Raise Money for Dining-In

The Office of Naval Intelligence’s Lieutenant Commander Dane Holtmeyer took action, literally, to raise money for this year’s Naval Intelligence Officer Dining-In—by soliciting pledges* for the Nashville Country Music Marathon he was planning to run on 27 April 2024.