Sharon A. Houy serves as DIA’s Chief of Staff, ensuring timely satisfaction of the Agency’s current requirements while developing the plans, process improvements and strategies that prepare the Agency for the future. Up until June 2010, she was Associate Deputy Director. As DIA’s Enterprise Manager, she led agency and combatant command intelligence efforts to create a more agile, professional Defense intelligence enterprise. She chaired DIA’s Enterprise Executive Board, which addressed combatant command integration issues and developed enterprise goals and objectives. Ms. Houy was born at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, and grew up in Illinois, Texas, Japan and California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 with Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She earned a Master of Arts in International Policy Studies and Russian from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1980. Ms. Houy is an alumnus of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Federal Executives Institute’s Leadership for a Democratic Society. Ms. Houy moved to Washington, D.C., in 1981 and spend on year as a staff assistant at the House of Representatives, where she focused on foreign policy and education issues. In 1982, she began her career with DIA as a Soviet/Warsaw Pack military capabilities analyst, working issues from ground forces tactics to Soviet military strategy and doctrine. From 1988-1990, she served as a DIA arms control advisor on the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Defense and Space negotiations. From 1990-1992, Ms. Houy managed the Operations Branch of the Director of Central Intelligence’s (DCI) Treaty Monitoring Center, Arms Control Intelligence Staff. In 1992, she returned to DIA as its Senior Intelligence Officer for Nonproliferation. In 1993, she became Chief of the Nonproliferation Branch and a member of the Department of Defense core counterproliferation team. In 1995, she led the Eurasian Regional Military Assessments Office. From 1995 to 2003, she held a series of Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service positions in the Directorate for Analysis, including Research Director for Military Assessments, Chief of the Office for Russia/Eurasia Regional Military Assessments, Vice Deputy Director for Intelligence Production and Chief of the Counterproliferation and Technology Office. From October 2003 to July 2005, Ms. Houy represented DIA at the National Security Agency (NSA), where she improved information sharing and enhanced collaboration between NSA and DIA. She is a strong proponent of foreign language capabilities and recruitment for the DIA workforce. In December 2007, Ms. Houy was awarded the rank of Meritorious Executive by order of the President of the United States of America. Ms. Houy’s other awards include” DCI Exceptional Performance Award, National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation, Director of Military Intelligence Certificate of Merit Unit Award, DIA Director’s Special Act or Service Award, two DIA Special Achievement Awards, DIA Diversity Management Award and DIA Certificate of Appreciate. In July 1996, Ms. Houy received the Defense Intelligence Director’s award and medal for the successful management of “Proliferation: Threat and Response,” the first unclassified proliferation document produced by DIA. She has also received executive performance bonuses annually from 2003-2009. Ms. Houy resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband Charlie, daughter Cassandra and dogs Lumi and Papi.