Dr. Adele Merritt has 25 years of demonstrated technical, analytic, and policy expertise in support of cyber and national security operations. As the NIH CIO, she leads IT strategy, policy, governance, security and oversight at NIH, which consists of 27 Institutes and Centers. Drive the strategic direction of NIH IT resources and infrastructure.

As the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (IC CIO), she led the IC’s ongoing modernization efforts to transform the IC Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) and other areas of the IC Information Environment, working to ensure the security of the IC’s information technology (IT) systems and enhancing IT cooperation within the IC.