DIA Analyst Receives Shaw Award Grace Lee Berman is this Years Recipient of the William R Shaw Award forAnalytic Excellence By Lt.CoI.Dolores M,Heib,
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meticulous analysis and untiring dedication to the mission. Each year the award goes to the one counterterrorism analyst who, during the past year, has demonstrated sustained excellence in fulfilling the mission of counterterrorism analysis and who has practiced the rigors of true academic dis cipline that Shaw regularly demonstrated.
Grace Lee Berman, a counterterrorism analyst in the Directorate for Intel ligence Joint Staff (J2), is the 2004 recipient of the William R. Shaw Award for analytic excellence. Vice AUm. L.E. Jacoby present ed the award to Berman during a Sept. 17 ceremony in the Tighe Auditorium.
Berman serves as the team leader for the Iraq Focus Cell, Middle East A panel of three senior and Transnational Division DIA executives, external to in J2’s Joint Intelligence JITF-CT, selected Berman Task Force for Combat from a group of twelve ing Terrorism (JITF-CT). nominations in what was Her selection capped a clearly the closest com year of intense focus on petition since the award’s Vice Adm. C.E.Jacoby, DIA director, presents the 2004 William R. Shaw her subject matter, and Award to Grace Lee Berman. inception in 1999. several others for which she was the analytical lead. This year’s nominees In accepting the award, came from all elements within JITF-CT Berman was quick to point out the selec and represented the growth JITF-CT tion recognized the dogged determination has undergone since 2001. Nominees and commitment of her team much also represent JITF-CT’s operational more than her personal achievement. focus as a number of the nominees She also reminded attendees of her deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq in the deep respect for the other nominees past two years. Nominees included: and their dedication to the mission of Christine S. Abizaid, William T. Conterrorism analysis. roy Ill, Molly K. Cunningham, KIon K. Kitchen, Pamela A. Mielnik, James This award is named in honor of Dr. V. Nardone, Nicole A. Nucelli, Phillip R. William R. Shaw, a former DIA senior John P. Saxe, Delice-Nicole Scotto Saleh, in specialized who officer intelligence M. Wallace. Christopher and widely He was issues. counterterrorism Asian intelligence community’s of the as one regarded Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees! I preeminent analysts, noted for his exhaustive research,
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