Meyerriecks Intel Acquisition Director

Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, announced on Thursday that he selected Dawn Meyerriecks, a former AOL executive and former chief technology officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency, as the new deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology.

Blair said Meyerriecks "is well respected for her work in designing, acquiring and delivering effective intelligence and information systems for the Department of Defense, and for providing some of the best commercial products for the public and private sector. . . . Her understanding of the entire end-to-end process of acquisition will help us deliver state of the art technology efficiently and when it is needed to maintain our advantage over our adversaries."

Meyerriecks sure will have a hefty pool of funds to manage. Blair disclosed this week that the intelligence budget for fiscal 2010 (which begins Oct. 1) will be $75 billion, although he did not say how much would go for acquisitions.

Meyerriecks spent seven years at DISA starting in 1998, including a stint as CTO and technical director for the Joint Interoperability and Engineering Organization. At DISA, she also helped develop the architecture for the Global Information Grid, the system of systems that serves Defense worldwide.

After DISA, Meyerriecks joined AOL where she helped develop products and services for the consumer Web company and then became an independent consultant in 2006.