Joseph Kernan

Vice Admiral Joseph D. Kernan, USN, Retired, has rejoined the firm's executive team as Vice President of Business Development to help provide powerful solutions to the national security community. Kernan brings his 40 years of active duty and government experience from service in the special operations community and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to SAP NS2. He helps SAP NS2 customers strengthen security and run efficient organizations through the use ofworld-class technologies.

Prior to SAP NS2, Mr. Kernan served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I...

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Vice Admiral Joseph D. Kernan, USN, Retired, has rejoined the firm's executive team as Vice President of Business Development to help provide powerful solutions to the national security community. Kernan brings his 40 years of active duty and government experience from service in the special operations community and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to SAP NS2. He helps SAP NS2 customers strengthen security and run efficient organizations through the use ofworld-class technologies.

Prior to SAP NS2, Mr. Kernan served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I)) from November 2017 through Nov. 10, 2020. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2017.

As the USD(I), Mr. Kernan was the principal intelligence, counterintelligence and security advisor to the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), and the SecDef's principal representative to the Intelligence Community. He also was dual-hatted as the Director of Defense Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and reported to the DNI in that capacity. He exercised authority, direction, and control on behalf of the SecDef over the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Security Service. Mr. Kernan established policy and priorities; and oversaw the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, consisting of more than 110,000 component employees, and an annual budget of over $54B.

Prior to serving as the USD(I), Mr. Kernan served in a variety of positions from 2013-2017, including: Board Director and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing for SAP National Security Services; Advisor for JLM Companies; Chairman of NS2 Serves, a Non-profit training and employment program for veterans and Board member for the National Navy SEAL Museum.

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