Adele Merritt

Federal Leadership

Adele Merritt serves as the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, she leads the development and implementation of enterprise-wide IT solutions that enhance collaboration and intelligence sharing across various agencies. Merritt has been instrumental in modernizing the IC’s IT infrastructure, promoting the adoption of cloud technologies, modern cybersecurity practices and advanced analytics, among others. Merritt is also committed to integrating emerging technologies like artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and intelligence gathering. Under her leadership, the IC this summer released a new information technology roadmap to guide intelligence agencies to make transformative decisions about the cloud environment, cybersecurity, advanced computing, data analysis, and artificial intelligence among an array of other technology issues.