Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel M. Diaz works as an intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) where he is also pursuing a Masters degree in Strategic Intelligence at the DIA’s National Defense Intelligence College. In 2005, he served in Baghdad as the Director of the DIA’s Joint Document Exploitation Center under the Multi-National Forces, Iraq. Lt Col Diaz received a B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of California-Davis in 1983 and an M.S., Artificial Intelligence, from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1994. Among his Air Force duties, Lt Col Diaz has served as an acquisition officer, an analyst, and a Missile Combat Crew Commander.