On 1 February 2009, Mr. Feldman was appointed Senior Advisor to the Director, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for Procurement Integrity. In this role, Mr. Feldman helps the Director ensure that the NRO’s industrial partners are meeting their integrity and business ethics responsibilities as required by law and federal regulations. Mr. Feldman also promotes the NRO’s government-wide role as a leader in acquisition integrity. Mr. Feldman is uniquely qualified to tackle this challenging role, having been the longest serving Inspector General of the NRO from March 2003-January 2009. In this position, he was responsible for a staff of approximately 80 auditors, inspectors, and investigators who provided independent oversight of NRO programs and operations worldwide. He also presided over a highly successful procurement fraud prevention and detection program widely recognized by the Department of Justice as a model throughout the federal government. Mr. Feldman has 30 years of experience in federal auditing and Inspector General oversight, in both the Executive and Legislative branches of government. His tenure includes 12 years with the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), where he began his career with GAO’s National Security and International Affairs Division. He subsequently held audit management positions during tours with GAO’s Latin America Regional Office in Panama, European Regional Office in Frankfurt, Germany, and at GAO Headquarters in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Feldman served as the first Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he established and directed the DIA-wide internal audit program, consisting of both performance and financial audits of DIA programs and activities worldwide. In 1998, Mr. Feldman joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the first Chief of Policy and Plans for the Office of Inspector General (OIG), where he developed and coordinated implementation of new OIG policies and procedures on processing OIG reports, planning and selecting OIG review topics, and tracking open recommendations. He was later selected to join the OIG Audit Staff in February 1999, where he served as the Chief of the Financial and Information Management Audit Group, and subsequently selected as Assistant Inspector General for Audit. In July 2001, he became the Acting Deputy Inspector General of the CIA. In January 2002, he was assigned to the Executive Director’s staff, where he served as Chair of the CIA Deployed Support Task Force in support of CIA’s compensation reform effort. Mr. Feldman was born on March 17, 1959 in New Rochelle, New York, and raised in Closter, New Jersey. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from The American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.S. degree in Political Science/Public Administration. Mr. Feldman is a 1995 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and is both a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Inspector General (CIG). He received the Defense Intelligence Director’s Award in 1997 for his work at the DIA/OIG, and has been awarded Exceptional Performance and Senior Intelligence Service Leadership Awards from the CIA and the NRO. In 2004 he was awarded the NRO Diversity Champion Award and the NRO Director’s Circle Award. He was also awarded the NRO Leadership Award in 2008. He is a member of the Department of Justice National Procurement Fraud Task Force and the Procurement Fraud Working Groups in both the Eastern District of Virginia and the Central District of California. Mr. Feldman was also elected to the National Board of Directors for the Association of Inspectors General and is President of their California Chapter. Mr. Feldman is married and has three children. He resides in Manhattan Beach, California.
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