Dr. Craig J. Wiener is recognized for his expertise in U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) efforts to assess major foreign adversary espionage, sabotage, and strategic capabilities that pose threats to the U.S. and NATO. Dr. Wiener’s previous position was as the Senior Technical Analyst for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence where he fulfilled a role as DOE’s lead all source cyber threat analyst, the Department’s representative to the National Security Council for Cyber Operations, a key member of National Intelligence Council Special Analytic Groups, and a government briefer and/or advisor for Defense Science Board studies on Cyber as a Strategic Capability, Homeland Defense, Strategic Surprise and the future of US Military Superiority among other topics. Additionally, Dr. Wiener initiated and led and continues to lead studies for special nuclear weapons related threat and vulnerability analyses and advanced technical security threats to USG equities by foreign adversaries. He joined The MITRE Corporation in 2020 as Technical Fellow for Intelligence/Counterintelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Applied Cybersecurity, bringing with him a wealth of experience in the development and planning of counter-adversary strategies across multiple domains of IC and DOD operations.

In this role Dr. Wiener serves as senior subject matter expert, technical leader and principal investigator focused on identifying and executing ways to meet DOD, IC, and NSC strategic goals. He is recognized as a national level thought leader and strategic planner in non-kinetic domains of operations, shaping activities of the U.S. government, partner organizations as well as internal MITRE operations.  Since joining MITRE, Dr. Wiener has created and led special program ideation, technical design and development in areas of applied cybersecurity, threat intelligence, technical targeting, adversary engagement, cyber resiliency, critical infrastructure and industrial cyber operations, cyber effects development and deterrence for the Department of Defense and the U.S. Intelligence Community. This work provides capability and intelligence integration across the national security enterprise and drives whole-of-nation approaches to advancing US domestic, and national security goals for various advanced research and development, strategic prototyping acquisition organizations and combatant commands.

In 2018 Dr. Wiener was awarded the National Intelligence Council Award for Analytic Excellence In 2017, Dr. Wiener was honored with the DOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Director’s Innovation Award for authoring critical strategic cyber intelligence analyses, including Presidential Daily Briefs, Sense of the Community Memorandums and an unprecedented number of special briefings and closed-door testimonies to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Armed Services Committee, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other Congressional oversight committees. In 2015 and 2016, Dr. Wiener was named a Pat Roberts Intelligence Community Scholar as he finalized his dissertation. In 2014, he was named the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Sidney D. Drell Academic Award winner for significant contributions to the national security and intelligence communities. Dr. Wiener previously served as senior advisor for strategic planning and analysis for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, and as executive policy advisor for the Office of the Associate Administrator/Chief, Defense Nuclear Security at NNSA. For the latter, he developed strategic and operational policies, procedures, and guidance for significant issues for Defense Nuclear Security physical and cybersecurity responsibilities throughout the U.S. nuclear security enterprise.

Dr. Wiener holds a dual degree in History and Politics (American History and National Security Policy) with Latin honors from New York University. He received a Master of Science degree in Biodefense with a concentration in Homeland Security from the George Mason University Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biodefense at George Mason University. Dr. Wiener is an alumnus of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program and a Member of the Rice University Research Security Advisory Board.

Dr. Wiener previously served as Adjunct Professor of International Security at George Mason University (GMU) in the Schar School of Government and Policy, where he taught upper-level graduate courses on Disruptive Technology and National Security, and National Security Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Wiener is an Inaugural Fellow at GMU’s Antonin Scalia Law School National Security Institute since the program’s inception.   He also served as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the U.S. Department of Energy, appointed by the Secretary to serve on DOE’s federal advisory committee for the Office of Electricity. His experience in the previous decade also includes positions as a Senior Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense Analyst and Critical Environments Division Manager/Consulting Design Engineer for private sector firms supporting advanced science and technology and national security priorities.