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Jill Tummler Singer
 Deputy Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

Ms. Jill Tummler Singer was appointed as the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Central Intelligence Agency in November 2006. She is responsible for ensuring CIA has the information, technology, and infrastructure necessary to effectively execute its missions. Prior to her appointment as Deputy CIO, Ms. Singer served as the Director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service (DTS), United States Department of State, and was responsible for global network services to US foreign missions.

Ms. Singer has served in several senior leadership positions within the Federal Government. She was the head of Systems Engineering, Architecture, and Planning for CIA's global infrastructure organization. She served as the Director of Architecture and Implementation for the Intelligence Community CIO and pioneered the technology and management concepts that are the basis for multi-agency secure collaboration. Ms. Singer also served within CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, in which she led several programs to successfully improve collaboration, including implementation of instant messaging across CIA and highly secure communities of interest across the IC.

Ms. Singer has held positions within private industry as a direct employee and as a federal government intern. She was a Vice President for Project Management at Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC), responsible for providing advanced information technology solutions to federal government clients. She completed a government sponsored internship with GE Aerospace and was employed with IBM. She received her Master of Science in Systems Analysis and her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of West Florida. She is a graduate of several leadership programs including the Federal Executive Leadership Program and the University of Virginia's Executive Leaders Program.