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assignment overseas. Upon completing that assignment, he returned to headquarters as a special assistant to the
Director NSA in the Office of the Executive Director and served under two directors of the Agency in that capacity. During the remainder of his early career at NSA he served in a wide variety of assignments including Head of special projects for A Group (Operations Analysis); Deputy Chief of Counterintelligence (and acting Chief) for A Group; Chief of Staff for A2, Deputy Chief R&D for military systems; Assistant Deputy Director for Administration, Chief of the Science and Technology Organization; Chief of the Analysis Organization for the Soviet Union; and Deputy Director for Plans and Programs. In July 1989 he resigned from the National Security Agency.
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external customer relations. He represented the
Director and Deputy Director in external activities, including public speeches, intelligence community boards, congressional testimony and oversight boards. In response to the challenges of Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Mr. Crowell developed a number of information systems, including networks, information displays, analyst support systems, and video- conferencing systems that provided the Directorate with access to real time information and also were used to improve analyst interaction and production.
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survey boat driver on the
Mississippi River. During his college years he did two week-long cross country hikes and fly fishing trips in the North Carolina mountains and streams, scuba diving in the Rainbow River in Florida, and was the chef for many of the fraternity offsite gatherings. Because of his earlier days as President of Key Club International, he also served as freshman, sophomore and junior class leader at LSU and was often called upon to give speeches to local service organizations.
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International, a high school community service organization of 65,000 members and in that capacity traveled extensively, including a trip with Radio Free Europe to European capitals for meetings with senior officials of West Germany, Berlin, Paris and London. A native of Louisiana, Crowell currently resides in Leesburg, Virginia with his wife Judy.
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signals processing, mathematics research, high-precision radar, and low-observable technology. Mr. Crowell established a new business that drew upon the technology strengths of the company to produce products for the
Intelligence Community and successfully positioned the company to perform satellite systems work for the Aerospace Corporation and the NRO.
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advisor to the
Director. He represented the Agency before congressional committees, presidential boards, and the public media. He fostered broad reexamination of core business processes, resulting in dramatic changes in strategic direction designed to cope with the continuing and rapid changes in cryptography, communications and information technology.
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Crowell’s adventuresome inclinations did not end with motorcycling or skiing. Of his approach to national security interests, he often said, “I like to kick the tires and experience what the people in the field are experiencing.” His “tire kicking” included aircraft carrier landings, at-sea transfers
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President
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During his tenure, Mr. Crowell implemented significant changes to the scope, cost, and efficiency of these operations. He closed down the majority of conventional collection sites, which had employed thousands of people, and replaced them with a new structure of remote collection systems located in
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Crowell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1940. His family moved to Dallas, TX in 1952 where he attended
Woodrow Wilson High School. He was a member of the ROTC reaching the rank of Lt. Colonel, was a member of the rifle team and led the Pershing Rifles performance group. In 1956 he was elected
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Washington DC area, his interests continued to broaden. Bill became a carpenter and built much of the furniture in his home, an accomplished photographer who built his own darkroom, and an artist who entered paintings, pottery and sculptures in a number of the local art shows.
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Crowell’s background is somewhat eclectic. During his early days in Louisiana he loved to fish and got to know the rivers and swamps of the bayou country with his grandfather and uncle. He earned his way through college working for an engineering firm as a surveyor in the Atchafalaya Swamp, and a
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Vice President at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation (1989–1990) In 1989 Crowell became Vice President and Director of Space Systems of Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation. Atlantic Aerospace worked in many areas of research and development, including imagery processing techniques,
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Bill and Judy had learned to ski in their early days together and managed to make that a passion as well, traveling to ski resorts in Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. After tackling the Austrian and Swiss Alps they decided to ski the slopes of Colorado at
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Bill and his wife Judy turned to the great outdoors for recreation, buying their first touring motorcycles in the mid 70’s and spending their vacations touring the Eastern United States. They traveled together, each on their own motorcycle, to virtually every state east of the Mississippi River,
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Crowell entered on duty with the National Security Agency in July 1962. His first assignment was as a recruiter for Masters and PhD graduates in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at leading universities. After serving in several capacities in HR, he accepted a division chief
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After training in the art of pottery under teachers from the famed Penland School of Craft, pottery became a serious passion. Crowell opened his own studio where he taught glaze chemistry, wheel thrown pottery on kick wheels he built, and raku firing in a wood-fired kiln he also crafted.
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staying in Park Lodges or Bed and Breakfasts, fly fishing the local rivers, and sampling the cuisine of all the best restaurants in each of the towns and cities they visited. After 45 years of exploring the country, COVID unfortunately made travel an unreasonable risk.
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to submarines, visits to conflict zones, helicopter trips to very remote and sometimes ancient places, and most exciting of all: a six-hour flight in the U2 spy plane at altitudes above 70,000 feet with substantial time at the yoke.
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and California to the snow-covered mountains of Montana, Canada and Oregon. When they returned to the East Coast they continued their motorcycling adventures with more travels down the Blue Ridge Parkway annually.
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three regional collection facilities. He also initiated the development of new collection systems that focused on modern telecommunications and information technologies, as well as the emerging global Internet.
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William Crowell Profile: Contact Information & Network | PitchBook
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Deputy Director for Operations, National Security Agency 1991-1994
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