News
2026
2025
- NIP Chair Recognized for Lifetime Achievements at Geoint Gala
- NIP 2025 Fundraising Campaign on Giving Tuesday
- Another Night of Esprit de Corps at the 57th Annual Naval Intelligence Officers’ Dining-In
- NIP Holds Annual General Meeting and Fall Luncheon
- Naval Intelligence Salutes Navy’s 250th Birthday
- NIP Celebrates Shipmate at Memorial Gathering
- Chuck Sams Receives Prestigious Lone Sailor Award
- NGIWA Holds Change of Command
- IWRON PILOT APPROVED: O’Connor and McLellan Named to Lead First Two Squadrons
- Naval Intelligence History Project Update
- Naval Intelligence Commemorates 83rd Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea
- 2025 NIP Red Tie Luncheon
- Janes Hosts “Evening with Analysts” for NIP
- 2025 Red Tie Award Winners Announced!
- Top Performers Recognized at ONI Birthday Celebration
- Navy Intelligence Reservists Gather for Annual Conference
- Intelligence Flags Gather to Welcome New USNA Intel Accessions
- Academic Year 2025-26 Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program
2024
- Information Warfare Community Changes Status: No Longer Restricted Line
- NIP Launches Annual Fundraising Campaign on Giving Tuesday
- IW Flag Selections Announced!
- Project 2032 MOAs Signed Between ONI, NHHC and NIP
- Paul Lowell Inducted onto Naval Intelligence Wall of Honor at ONI
- NIP Hears from DNI at Annual Fall Luncheon
- NIP Chair Featured as Emcee for TMF 9/11 Heroes Run
- Naval Intelligence Honors Eight Fallen Shipmates on 9/11
- ONI’s Command Master Chief Jason Reynolds Selected as NGA Senior Enlisted Leader
- VADM Aeschbach Retires, Passes Command of NAVIFOR to VADM Vernazza
- Two New Members Selected for NIP Board to Represent Marines
- Major General Jerry Carter Nominated to be Marine Corps’ Next DCI
- ONI’s Holtmeyer Goes the Extra Mile to Raise Money for Dining-In
- Always Do Your Best at All Jobs: Lou Conter, the Last Living USS Arizona Survivor, and Retired Naval Intelligence Officer, Passes Away at 102
- Rear Admiral Mike Vernazza Nominated to be Commander, Naval Information Forces
- 2024 NIP Red Tie Luncheon: Recognizing our Distinguished Awardees and Hearing Impactful Words from Our DDNI
- 2024 Red Tie Award Winners Announced!
- Will Wilburn Promoted to Brigadier General
- ONI’s Top Performers Recognized at 142nd Anniversary Celebration
- VJ2 Provides Joint Perspective to Midshipmen at “Burn Bag” Lunch
- Rear Admiral Mike Brookes Outlines Office of Naval Intelligence Priorities at AFCEA WEST 2024
- 2024 Navy Information Warfare (IW) Industry Day Recap
- Academic Year 2024-25 Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program
2023
- 55th Naval Intelligence Officers’ Dining-In a Success!
- Steve Parode Assumes Duties as DDNI
- Information Warfare Community Celebrates 14th Birthday
- NIP Elects CAPT (Ret) Steve Horrell for President
- 2023 Naval Intelligence Community Awards Announced
- NIP Partners with USS Midway Museum to Refurbish CVIC Spaces
- NIP Decides Not to Hold Annual Golf Tournament in NCR in 2023
- Captain (ret) JTodd Ross Pays Tribute to Fallen Naval Intelligence Officer in Memorial Day Remarks
- Shipmates Bid Final Farewell to CAPT (Ret) John Allison
- NIP Foundation Committee Seeking Director for Foundation’s Annual Golf Tournament
- RDML (Ret) Tony Cothron Receives NIP Red Tie Award for 2023
- 2022 NIP-Sponsored Award Winners for ONI Announced
- FY-23 Navy 18XX Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Nominees Announced
- VADM (Ret) Bob Sharp Assumes Leadership of NIP
2022
- Announcing The Naval Intelligence Professionals Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2023-2024
- ONI Hosts Inaugural "Brain Trust" Day
- Listen to CAPT Jim Fannell's Remarks on the PRC, Maritime Sovereignty Campaign - Danger in the Taiwan Strait
- Annual NIP Golf Tournament Raises over $5500 for Foundation
- NIP Members Support Honor Flight San Diego
- Listen to CAPT Tony Butera’s Remarks from September’s Virtual Speaker Event!
- Navy intel will never stop carrying on the mission of our 9/11 fallen
- In Case You Missed It! Listen to August’s Virtual Speaker Event with VADM (Ret) Bob Sharp
- July Virtual Speaker Series: Russia - Ukraine Lessons Learned With Mr. Jeff Ringhausen
- June Virtual Speaker Series: Leading the Way During a GEOINT Revolution
- NIP Announces the Winners of the 2022 Rear Admiral Sumner Scholarship Program
- May Virtual Speaker Series: Intelligence and Cryptology at the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
- April Virtual Speaker Series: SMWDC
- March's Virtual Speaker Series: NAWDC
- Job Opening for Assistant Professor at Liberty University
- VADM Whitworth Nominated to Lead National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Announcing The Naval Intelligence Professionals Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2022-2023
2021
- NPS Student Lieutenant Michael Canavati Receives 2021 Inman Award
- September Virtual Speaker Event: 9/11 Panel
- Rear Admiral Frank "Trey" Whitworth Nominated for Third Star
- Winners of the 2021 RADM Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Contest Announced
- NIP’s Red Tie Reception Honors Red Tie Award Winners
- RADM Gene Price relieves RADM Kelly Aeschbach as COMONI on 3 May
- Rear Admiral Kelly Aeschbach to Get Third Star
- RADM Mike Vernazza Discusses Mission, Role and Status of NIWDC at February Virtual Speaker Event
- Guidelines for the 2021 Naval Institute’s Naval Intelligence Essay Contest are now available!
- RDML Henderschedt Shares Unique Insights on U.S.-PRC Relations During January’s Virtual Speaker Series Event
2020
- The Naval Intelligence Professionals RADM Shapiro Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2021-2022
- Author Matt Zullo Discusses his Book Series, The U.S. Navy’s On-The-Roof-Gang, With Virtual NIP Audience
- Submissions for USNI’s Information Warfare Essay Contest are due by 30 November!
- NIP Chairman Announces Plan for 2020’s Annual General Membership Meeting
- Annual Memorial Services at ONI and Arlington Honor the Eight CNO-IP Personnel Who Perished in 9/11 Attacks
- NIP’s July Virtual Speaker Event Features Instructive Perspective from Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Mr. Scott Bray
- Catastrophic Fire on USS Bonhomme Richard is Significant Loss for the Navy, Impacts NIP Members
- Rear Admiral Henderschedt Named as Defense Attaché in Beijing
- CMDCM Keith Hayden Selected as Next Command Master Chief for ONI
- Master Chief Laura Nunley Named DIA’s New Command Senior Enlisted Leader
- May Virtual Speaker Session Features Insightful Perspective from Tampa
- VADM Kohler Turns Naval Intelligence Community Management Responsibilities Over to VADM Bob Sharp, DNI Duties to VADM (S) Jeff Trussler
- NIP Presents The 2020 RED TIE Award
- OUR VERY OWN NEIL WILEY RISES TO THE TOP RANKS OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE!
- COMONI Addresses NIP Crowd via Telecon
- NIP Chairman's May 2020 Update
- TAPS: CAPT James “Papa Jim” Davitt, Jr
- NIP is producing a new hard copy publication!
- San Diego NIP Chapter Helps Sailors Who Have Been Impacted Financially by COVID-19 Crisis
- SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUN 1, 2020
- State Department Briefing on Disinformation and Propaganda Related to COVID-19
- Annual Spring Red Tie Luncheon POSTPONED
- TAPS: Passing of CDR Paul Wilt, USN (Ret), (May 1973 - Mar 2020)
- TAPS: William 'Bill' Scott Kozacek
- Barred from Combat, These Women Rose to the Top of Military Intelligence
- USNI Announces Guidelines and Theme for 2020 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest
- RADM (Ret) Paul Becker inspires NIP with his leadership principles of Teamwork, Tone, (and) Tenacity at NIP Monthly Social
- RADM Shapiro Scholarship Program Announced for Academic Year 2020-2021
2019
- NIU online campus store
- Iran Military Power Report Statement
- H-gram 036B - The Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Intelligence Essay Contest Award Winners
- When Intelligence Made a Difference
- Spring 2019 Red Tie Luncheon Highlights
- U.S. Naval Institutes's Naval Intelligence Essay Contest
- Deliver Value, Not Overhead: The Navy Reserve Needs IMAs
2018
- Intelligence Officer Careers and How to Get One
- 52nd Naval Intelligence Officers Dining In
- Intelligence Sailor of the Year (ISOY) Afloat Presentation
- Eli W. Wood Joins Institute for Defense Analyses
- Naval Intelligence Professionals Scholarships Announced
- Singapore Summit: U.S. Must Avoid the Trap
- Prize Winning Essay by CAPT Dale Rielage
- Northeastern University's MA in Strategic Intelligence And Analysis
- Project 2032 Update:
- IWC Flag Moves
- Flag Officer Announcements
2017
- Naval Intelligence: Build Regional Experts
- Naval Community Comms Line
- Spring NIP Luncheon | April 13, 2018
- 2018 National Capital Chapter Officers
- Naval Intelligence Officer Honored with Award of "Order of Rising Sun"
- Please save the dates for some big upcoming events:
- NIP Scholarship Program Winners for 2017 - 2018
- NIP PARTICIPATES IN U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY PRIZES AND AWARDS
- IWTC Virginia Beach Holds Combined Graduation
- NIP’s Robert Hoppa Supports First joint N2/N6 NIOBC Graduation
- Flag Officer Announcements
- US Naval Institute-NIP 2017 Essay Contest Update
- Register today to attend Navy Information Warfare Industry Day!
- LAST WEEK TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS
- Back To The Future: Office Of Naval Intelligence At 135
- Enter The Naval Institute's Naval Intelligence Essay Contest
- National Military Intelligence Foundation Scholarship
- REAR ADMIRAL SUMNER SHAPIRO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
- CIA publishes its history, nearly 13 million pages of documents online
- MOA for Project 2032 with ONI and NHHC
2016
- From the NMITC Files:
- Special Agents and the VA
- Winning Tomorrow’s Battles: New Techniques, Tools, and Technologies
- Naval Intelligence Essay Contest: First & Second Place Awards
- Naval Intelligence Essay Contest: Third Place Award for "What is Past is Prologue."
- 2016 Naval Intelligence Essay Contest Winners!
- 2016 Fall NIP Meeting and Luncheon
- What does transformation mean for Naval Intelligence?
- NIP Binnacle List: Douglass Hubbard
- Gail Harris is Gale Force!
- Storm Over Leyte
- JDISS Celebrates 25 Years of Service to the Fleet- and the Nation!
- NIP 2016 Golf Tourney Hits Them Straight and Long!
- Storm Over Leyte with John Prados
- 2016 Fall Season Filled With Events
- The Weather at DoDIIS 2016: Partly Cloudy with a Chance for Digitization
- Vice Admiral Tighe Takes Charge of Information Warfare, Naval Intelligence
- DoDIIS Weaher Report
- CAPT Mike Studeman Takes Command of CYBER JIOC
- Flag Officer Assignment
- Retirement Ceremony RADM Paul Becker
- MazzInt July 2016: A Vortex of Violence and Fear
- NIP San Diego Chapter News
- Capt. Frank D. Whitworth III, selected for promotion to rear admiral
- New Deputy DCIA for Military Affairs
- From Our Shipmates at Station HYPO: NIOC Menwith Hill Disestablished, July 10, 2015
- AFCEA Seeks a VP for Intelligence
- NIP’s Joe Mazzafro Mentioned in Dispatches
- Opening and Closing Remarks at DIA’s IC ITE Day
- NIP Hawaii Welcomes RADM Paul Becker With Spirit of Aloha
- Career Cryptologic Tech Tapped To Be Navy's Top Enlisted
- Volunteers needed to Support Navy Information Warfare Day
- Teamwork, Tone, Tenacity | Article
- Battle of Midway 07 JUN Formal Ceremony at PACFLT HQ
- NIP Battle of Midway Week Social at Historic Hickam Officer’s Club | 06 June
- 06 JUN Station HYPO Tour!
- VADM Jan Tighe, USN, Nominated for Director of Naval Intelligence (N2/N6)
- Battle of Midway Gala onboard USS Missouri!
- Midway Atoll Murals Unveiling
- Pacific Fleet Commemorates the Victory at Midway, 2016
- Navy Info Warfare Industry Day - VADM Tighe Keynote
- New N2N6 Nominated
- DESIGNATION OF THE CRYPTOLOGIC WARFARE COMMUNITY
- 2016 Spring Red Tie Summary
- Chairman's SITREP- May 2016
- Museum Ship Leaves the Washington Navy Yard- but you can see her go!
- 2016 Red Tie Award Goes to JR Reddig
- Center for Information Dominance Change of Command
- CAPT Jim Fanell Remarks to IWC on PLA-N Events
- ONI Change of Command
- DIA Selects New Deputy Director
- Navy Moves to End Long Period with Intelligence Chief Who Can’t View Intelligence
- Naval Intelligence Professionals Chairman’s Update – March 2016
- Office of Naval Intelligence Celebrates 134th Anniversary
- Phishing Emails Targeting Veterans are on the Rise…
- DHS/OCIA: Cyberattack on seaports could have wide-ranging effects on key infrastructure
- Military Retirement Update Now Available
- RSA Interviews Posted
- Naval Intelligence Professionals Attend AFCEA’s WEST Conference in San Diego
- The Evolution of Navy Cryptology - Guest Post by VADM Tighe
- Announcing the Naval Intelligence Professionals Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2016-2017
- Information Warfare
- Commander Roger Patrick US Navy (Ret)
2015
- Carter: China Isolating Itself in Pacific
- Navy Information Dominance Industry Day 2015
- Why Are Chinese and Russian Ships Prowling the Mediterranean?
- RADM(Ret.) Sam Cox to lead Naval History and Heritage Command
- Stand Up of Navy Information Dominance Forces Command (NAVIDFOR)
- RADM Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2015-2016
2014
Jun 04, 2014
Flag Officer Assignments
The Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert announced today the following assignments:
Rear Adm. Matthew J. Kohler will be assigned as commander, Information Dominance Forces Command/Director for Communications…
Mar 22, 2014
Q&A: Rear Admiral Paul Becker
Intel Director: Intel Must Be Part of War Winning, Not Just War Fighting
Interviewed by Geospatial Intelligence Forum Editor Harrison Donnelly
Q: What is the overall mission of the Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate (J2)?
A: It’s important to start with…
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