Mr. Armour is
Program Manager for Project Genoa II, a new program in the Information
Awareness office
of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior
to returning to
DARPA in January 2002 to take on this assignment, Mr. Armour was
Chief Technology
Officer at Creative Technology Incorporated of Herndon, Virginia.
Before retiring
from US Government Service in December 2000, he had been detailed to
the Information
Systems Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as a
Program Manager.
Prior to this assignment, Mr. Armour had been an Intelligence
Officer at the
Central Intelligence Agency since 1975. His last assignment at CIA was
Senior Technology
Officer for the Directorate of Intelligence, responsible for helping the
Directorate think
strategically about the impact of technology on its business. Mr.
Armour served as
Chief of Information Technology for the DCI's Nonproliferation
Center. Prior to
this assignment, Mr. Armour was on the staff of CIA's Deputy Director
for Science and
Technology where he was involved in the Directorate's strategic
planning process
and conducted ad hoc studies for the Deputy Director. Mr. Armour has
had a number of
analytic and managerial assignments in CIA's Directorate of Intelligence
involving foreign
strategic missiles, the proliferation of missile technology worldwide,
and Soviet naval
weapons systems and strategic command and control, low-observable
programs, cruise
missiles, and antiballistic missile systems. He served as chief of the
Directorate's
computing and methodological support group, which had responsibility for
applying
computing and methodological tools to intelligence analysis. The group was
involved in the
full range of computing activities from direct end-user support through
the design,
development, and procurement of large ADP systems. Mr. Armour also has
served in staff
positions within the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research with
collection and
arms control support responsibilities and was Executive Assistant to the
Deputy and
Associate Deputy Directors for Intelligence. Prior to his CIA employment,
Mr. Armour was a
navigator in the United States Air Force, where he flew combat
missions on the
AC-119K gunship in Vietnam and worldwide airlift missions on the C-
141A aircraft. He
is married and has a son born in 1975 and is a private pilot with
PP-
SE:-IA ratings.