Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific

David C. Gompert was Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence from 2009 to 2010. During 2010, he served as Acting Director of National Intelligence, in which capacity he provided strategic oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community, and acted as the President's chief intelligence advisor.

Gompert is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor for National Security Studies at the United States Naval Academy, and Adjunct Senior Fellow of the RAND Corporation. He is a Trustee of Hopkins House Academy, a Director of the Rufus Porter Museum, a Director of Global Integrated Security (USA), Inc., a member of the Advisory Board of the Naval Academy Center for Cyber Security Studies, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Early Childhood Education.

Prior to service as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Gompert was a Senior Fellow at the RAND Corporation, from 2004 to 2009. Before that he was Distinguished Research Professor at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University. From 2003 to 2004, he served as the Senior Advisor for National Security and Defense, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq. Gompert served as President of RAND Europe from 2000 to 2003, and was Vice President of RAND and Director of the National Defense Research Institute from 1993 to 2000.

Gompert has published extensively on international affairs, national security policy, and information technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.