Alfred Trujillo is nominated for the NGA Hall of Fame for his 40-year career of government service, including multiple roles at NGA and its predecessor organizations from 1997-2012. During this time, he made remarkable contributions that improved GEOINT support to military and civilian personnel. As a program manager and senior acquisition officer, he established NGA's reputation for efficient and agile acquisition programs. His initiatives helped enable GEOINT dissemination and analysis capabilities for both military operations and domestic emergency response. Trujillo's forward-thinking concepts shaped NGA's acquisition strategies and helped deliver critical intelligence support.

1. Alfred Trujillo, Senior Acquisition Officer, DAWIA, PayBand 5
NGA Retired - July 2009, Rehired annuitant Jan 2010 - March 2012
Address: 10069 Greenwich Woods, Nokesville VA 20181
NGA Offices served, location, dates
NGA, National System for Geospatial Intelligence Expeditionary Architecture Integrated
Program Office, NGA Campus East (Senior Acquisition Officer)
Jan 10 – Mar 12
NGA, Acquisition Office, Integration Division, Reston VA (Program Manager and Contracts
Officer Representative)
Oct 05 –Jul 09
NGA, Acquisition Systems Management Division, Reston VA (Program Manager and Contracts
Officer Representative for Imagery Exploitation Support System)
Aug 02 – Sep 05
NIMA, Acquisition Systems Dissemination Division Reston VA (Libraries Test and
Deployments Lead)
Nov 99 – Aug 02
NIMA, Archive and Dissemination Program Executive Office (PEO), System Support Branch,
Reston VA (Branch Chief)
Apr 97 – Oct 99
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
University of Kentucky, 1981
Army Management Staff College, 1989
Certified DAWIA Advance Program Management Level III
Certified DAWIA Advance Acquisition Logistics Level III
Certified DAWIA Production, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance Level III
Army Logistics Acquisition Management Program - LOGAMP
Army Acquisition Corps Professional
Al Trujillo NGA Hall of Fame Narrative
Alfred Trujillo is nominated for the 2015 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Hall of Fame. During his 40-year career of service to the Nation, he has served in the
Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Joint Commands, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), and Coalition Acquisition, Logistics, and Force Generation
planning. Throughout his career he achieved a significant impact on NGA and its heritage
organizations’ Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) tradecraft, technology, systems and operations
in support of defense, intelligence and homeland security customers. Mr. Trujillo served in five
different key NGA positions as a government civilian employee and as a rehired annuitant
between the years 1997 – 2012. He made truly remarkable contributions that significantly
improved GEOINT support to forward deployed personnel including those engaged in combat
operations. His leadership, vision and technical acumen is universally acknowledged as a key
reason for NGA’s reputation as the IC’s preeminent system acquisition program.

2. Mr. Trujillo received multiple awards for his efforts, to include the Commander’s Award
Service Medal, Superior Civilian Service Medal and the NGA Medallion for Excellence.
The expertise and wisdom Mr. Trujillo developed during his years of uniformed and civilian
service in the Marine Corps and Army at the tactical, command and service staff levels prepared
him for his work in NGA and its predecessor organizations as a Branch Chief, Test and
Deployment Lead, Program Manager and Senior Acquisition Officer. His NGA contributions
helped establish and enhance NGA’s reputation as a premier Combat Service Support and
Combat Support Agency focused directly on the warfighter. He understood the time-critical
OPTEMPO needs at the “pointy” end of the spear, and his unique background and blend of
tactical, operational and strategic experience enabled him to manage crisis requirements and lead
responsive programs in a highly charged, time sensitive environment. He embodied the notion
of “One Team One Fight”, and everyone from national policymakers to tactical combatants
appreciated his energy and focus. His forward leaning concepts regarding understanding
customer requirements, flexible architecture design and agile acquisition development enabled
him to execute systems deliveries that performed well, on time and at lower costs. He ensured
the right tools for analysis and decision making made it to both the warfighters at Forward
Operating Bases and to homeland security first responders here at home.
Branch Chief, Archive and Dissemination PEO. Mr. Trujillo was the key person behind
the standup of the Archive & Dissemination Program Execution Office within the National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), an NGA heritage organization. He implemented policies
and initiatives involving Agency approaches to new logistics support activities and Integrated
Logistics Support (ILS). He implemented the Demand-Driven Direct Digital Dissemination
(5D)-to-Image Product Library (IPL) transition and fielding. He also led the Agency’s 5D “Year
2000” (Y2K) certification, which was the first system to achieve Y2K certification and deploy
worldwide. He developed a NIMA-wide Y2K Rapid Response Team to ensure mission critical
systems performed during what was a major information technology transition here and abroad.
He also designed and implemented the Consolidated Help Desk solution, resulting in single-
point response management and reduced response time, to include fly-away support. His work
saved the agency millions of dollars at a time of limited funding. Mr. Trujillo received
recognition from the NIMA Director for providing a “premiere digital imagery archive system”
for his tireless efforts on the 5D IPL, and his team earned the Joint Meritorious Unit Award and
the Meritorious Unit Citation for their Y2K and 5D IPL successes.
Libraries Program Management Office (PMO) Test/Integration Lead, Dissemination
Division. Mr. Trujillo led a Contractor and Government team in engineering, developing,
approving, and maintaining GEOINT dissemination and archive systems in support of the
diverse IC & DoD customer base. He also achieved significant operations and sustainment cost
savings. Mr. Trujillo managed the Command Imagery Library deployment within the National
Imagery Exploitation System (NIES) project, consisting of five different segments with five
different program offices. He managed NIES library replacement and transition at five joint
commands— Central Command, European Command, Pacific Command, Strategic Command,
and Joint Forces Command. His team accomplished the first United States Imagery and
Geospatial-Information System delivery and led a successful upgrade, software testing and
delivery, deployment, operations and sustainment and logistics management in support of the
Washington Area Library Architecture. These efforts led to a highly modernized GEOINT

3. capability for warfighters around the world and earned his team the National Intelligence
Meritorious Unit Citation.
IESS PM/COR, Systems Management Division. Mr. Trujillo managed a several hundred
million dollar DoD mission-critical system supporting thousands of users at dozens of worldwide
sites. He led the transition of the critical Imagery Exploitation Support System (IESS) program
from the Air Force to NIMA without impacting the schedule, saving tens of millions of dollars
during contract negotiations. Mr. Trujillo transitioned the IESS development contract to NGA’s
transformation contract and then led the transition of the large operations and sustainment (O&S)
contract. He also led five major upgrades and reduced the number of simultaneously fielded
baselines to only two, a dramatic reduction from the previous complexity and huge costs of nine
fielded baselines. He decreased recapitalization timelines, enhanced maintainability and reduced
system vulnerability and O&S costs. Mr. Trujillo implemented the first use of Earned Value
Management (EVM) and earned an outstanding Contract Implementation Review. He expanded
IESS into a tactical vision-oriented program. The program was recognized for multiple
integration efforts, including the integration of complex dissemination and archive systems with
equally complex workflow management systems. This effort enabled national and tactical
workflow management and report generation well within timelines expected with separate
platforms, providing reduced footprint and maintenance costs. It also resulted in a Joint
Meritorious Unit Award.
Cutting Edge Innovation. Near the end of his tour as the IESS PM/COR Mr. Trujillo
initiated an experiment that led to the achievement of what was essentially a deployable National
System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) “in a box”. Combining IESS and IPL on the same
platform he was able to reduce the form factor by combining the two databases while retaining
the functionality of both systems. His co-host concept was the engineering basis for became the
NGA Deployable Systems (NDS). The result was a greater capability in significantly smaller and
lighter hardware.
NDS PM, Multiple Simultaneous Systems Integration and Agile Contracting.
Mr. Trujillo stood up NDS, achieved Initial Operating Capability and initial deployment in less
than eleven months, and simultaneously led the integration of the first NGA command vehicle,
called the Domestic Mobile Integrated GEOINT System (DMIGS). During the same period, he
led a small team of system engineers and integrators in developing the NGA deployable family
of systems (FoS) that provided a full analytical/production environment, meeting the Office
Global Support (OGS)—now Military Support— requirements for NGA deployers. His Program
directly supported Combatant Command requirements, domestic crises and National Special
Security Events. The Program leveraged the Deployable Systems Venture and his co-hosted
IESS/IPL, implementing the NGA Director’s vision to consolidate and standardize legacy
systems to NSG compliance. The resulting FoS is interoperable with DoD, IC, and other US civil
agency systems and can operate in multiple operational environments including tactical, national,
coalition, domestic. After delivering DMIGS, he led DMIGS II development providing satellite
communications on the move. Both DMIGS I & II continue to provide significant GEOINT
support to planned and contingency domestic events and exercises. Mr. Trujillo established a
multiple agile contracting approach, providing “just-in-time, just-in-case” scheduling that
supported smaller dollar value requirements and expedited the procurement process. His

4. pathfinder work in agile development shaped all later NGA acquisitions. He cut the total
program cost by half and the average delivery time for requirements was reduced to 30 days
from requirement validation to delivery to the theater of operations. Mr. Trujillo also integrated
full motion video and a multi-intelligence core into the architecture at major joint exercises. The
key to this successful demonstration was another system called NSG-Forward, whose use of a
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was negotiated, contracted, integrated and fielded in six
months. Under his leadership this SOA-based capability also demonstrated DoD and IC
interoperability. This unique capability provided improvements available to military services’
Distributed Common Ground Systems and other commercially standard SOA frameworks.
Finally, he implemented the Tactical Imagery Exploitation Segment (TIES), an upgraded
workflow management, providing better efficiency of scale and more cost effective.
Mr. Trujillo was incredibly forward thinking in terms of systems integration, rapid
deployment, agile development, and integration of non-traditional sources such as video and
multi-INT. His initiatives in these categories served the agency and the warfighter well during
Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom as well as other contingency missions. Mr.
Trujillo’s efforts became the model for the agency’s acquisition system, demonstrating best
practices for efficiently managing resources and streamlining the acquisition process. At the
annual NSG Users Conference in 2008, Mr. Trujillo’s work and NDS were recognized as one of
Lt. Gen. James Clapper’s top five programs. Mr. Trujillo’s leadership, acquisition expertise and
motivational abilities earned him and his NGA team four significant awards: two Meritorious
Unit Citations, a National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation, and the Superior Civilian
Service Medal.
Senior Acquisition Officer, NEA IPO. Shortly after Mr. Trujillo’s retirement from federal
service, he was called back to NGA because of his outstanding leadership and acquisition
acumen. He was selected to join the new NSG Expeditionary Architecture (NEA) Integrated
Program Office (IPO) as a Senior Acquisition Officer to help the Agency coordinate multiple
initiatives and programs across the NGA and NSG enterprise. His leadership supported
foundational initiatives accelerating the implementation of the Director’s Agile Acquisition
Strategy. Mr. Trujillo’s invaluable experience to the NEA IPO was critical in support of the “last
tactical mile”. The Agile Acquisition Strategy was established in support of an operational
environment in which NDS and NEA were leading components in the very rapid and streamlined
response to intelligence gaps. This Agile Acquisition Strategy supported urgent requirements and
projects. He skillfully articulated and implemented the Agile Acquisition Strategy, responding to
an operational environment through these rapid and streamlined programs and projects. He was
instrumental in fulfilling DoD Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Task Force
mission-critical Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRCs) requirements.
Mr. Trujillo also was the acquisition driver for the Activity Based Intelligence (ABI)
capability. ABI rewrote the rules on tasking, collection processing, exploitation, and
dissemination (TCPED) and the GEOINT tradecraft. Mr. Trujillo and his team earned the
National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation for their efforts.

5. Champion and Spokesperson for Forward Thinking Strategies. Mr. Trujillo delivered
decision briefings to senior executives on strategy, programming and architecture for a variety of
NEA, NSG, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Task Force initiatives. He
provided direct interface to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on Overseas
Contingency Operations (OCO) funding issues. His accomplishments have crossed the entire
NSG Enterprise, impacted every phase of TCPED, and played a vital role in NGA mission of
providing “timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security”,
or as former Director Ms. Letitia A. Long put it in her testimony to the House Armed Services
Committee, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats, and Capabilities, “putting the best
GEOINT possible in the hands of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen”
(given on Apr 4, 2014).
According to one of his former superiors, “Al is the consummate acquisition officer, who
delivered capabilities that met or exceeded the design specifications in timeframes that were
often accelerated [especially by warfighter demand]”. Mr. Trujillo’s ability to think strategically,
yet manage daily with integrity while leading his team to excel professionally and to improve
their NSG systems and operational concepts are rare personal character traits that have yielded
time and cost savings for NGA, significantly impacted the GEOINT tradecraft and technology,
impacted NGA’s combat, humanitarian and domestic support mission, and put timely GEOINT
into the hands of those who need it. His motivation has always been ‘mission first and teamwork
always’. I cannot think of a more deserving former NGA employee to receive the Hall Of Fame
Award than Mr. Alfred Trujillo.