Dr. Torreon Creekmore

Dr. Torreon Creekmore is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Senior Cybersecurity Engineer.   In this role, he leads the development of NGA’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) Enterprise strategy to address current and future customer needs associated with the explosion of “Big Data” and “data-intensive geospatial intelligence.” 

Most recently he became the third Director for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Space Threat Assessment Cell (STAC) from 2020 to 2021. As the STAC Director, he assised ODNI Senior Leadership in leading the Intelligence Community (IC) to inform on U.S. space protection decisions, while managing DoD and IC partnerships to frame the future space environment. 

From 2016 to 2020, he served as an Intelligence Advanced Project’s Activity Program Manager at ODNI. As a program manager with IARPA, he led several high-risk/high-pay-off R&D initiatives that include:  the High Frequency Geolocation (HFGeo), the Innovation Small Satellite Technology Seedling, the Space–Based Machine Automated Recognition Technique program and the Passive Ionospheric Non–characterized Sounding Prize Challenge.   Before joining IARPA, Dr. Creekmore served as the Senior Staff Scientist of National Geospatial–Intelligence Agency Research Directorate Predictive Analytics Pod, where he oversaw advanced geospatial intelligence Research and Development (R&D) at high school, collegiate, and government levels.       

Dr. Creekmore has led a portfolio of several high-risk/high-payoff R&D programs worth more than $250 million that have national scope in areas such as surveillance, signal processing, small satellites, image processing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies of interest to Congressional, DoD, IC, civil, private, and international partners. In 2020, he developed, managed, and transitioned two state-of-the-art multi-million-dollar scientific user facilities operating both in and outside the continental U.S. His facilities developed technology modernized DoD and IC national intelligence capabilities to respond to the growing threat of adversaries utilizing HF transmissions. 

Dr. Creekmore holds a Doctorate Degree in Atmospheric Science from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Elizabeth City State University.  He is the winner of the 2019 ODNI Science and Technology Professional Individual Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contribution in research or advanced technology development across the Intelligence Community.   Dr. Creekmore is a native of Elizabeth City, North Carolina and current reside in Manassas, Virginia with his wife, daughter, and son.