- The U.S. intelligence community’s leading officials regularly address 4×24 gatherings
- They share exclusive insights, have candid conversations and develop lasting relationships with GovCon industry members
- Visit the 4×24 Leadership Program homepage to learn why it’s a must-join membership organization
The executives of consequence that comprise Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Leadership Program routinely meet with the top intelligence officials in the federal government. 4×24’s exclusive, intimate and consequential gatherings attract the most influential leaders in government who drive innovation, shape policy and influence the business of federal technology.
The intelligence community’s top officials are no strangers to 4×24 members. They attend 4×24 events for the program’s tailored peer network to give exclusive insights into the IC’s needs, engage in candid discussion on a Chatham House, off-the-record basis, and grow relationships with the most innovative companies in GovCon.
What Is 4×24 and What Are Its Benefits?
Knowledge
4×24 members meet with leading federal technology officials from across the federal government, helping them better understand and anticipate emerging competitions, requirements and government pain points. This helps members refine proposals demonstrating how their product can address essential challenges and win more contract awards.
Connections
4×24 members thrive when meeting leading government officials and peer executives, and exchanging career and business experiences, at the intimate events. This helps members not just expand their business network, but also creates community.
Visibility
GovCon executives who are part of 4×24 build visibility with guaranteed consistent coverage for their organizations in Executive Mosaic’s online news outlets: GovCon Wire, ExecutiveBiz, ExecutiveGov and GovConExec International. 4×24 members leverage services like the Executive Spotlight interview to communicate key messages and branding to GovCon’s leading professionals.
Alignment
Here, the benefits of the 4×24 Leadership Program starts to mesh for members. Our small-format events with other leading GovCon executives helps them learn of new business opportunities. Members speak candidly and confidently, and spark new collaborations through the off-the-record conversations based on Chatham House rules.
Opportunity
This is when it all comes together for 4×24 Leadership Program members. They become better equipped with exclusive knowledge and details of federal opportunities, relationships with top government officials and fellow influential executives, positioning them to win more, and larger, contracts.
Why Should Intelligence Executives Join 4×24?
The 4×24 Leadership Program is a must-join for intelligence industrial base executives who want to learn of service requirements before they’re publicly released, create meaningful relationships that become new business opportunities and enhance their commitment to government service. Visit the 4×24 website to learn more and inquire about membership today!
Who Are Intelligence Community Officials Who Have Addressed 4×24?
Let’s examine the backgrounds of five premier IC officials who have addressed the 4×24 Leadership Program.
Mark DeVido
Director of Contracts, National Reconnaissance Office
Mark DeVido has served as director of contracts at the National Reconnaissance Office since 2019. He brings extensive acquisition experience from across the IC, including stints at the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Department of War.
At the CIA, DeVido was chief of acquisition strategy in the Office of the Procurement Executive, where he developed and implemented the Agency Corporate Acquisition Strategy and directed several workforce, strategy and efficiency initiatives. He also led the agency’s headquarters contracts group and its talent and enterprise acquisitions group, overseeing six contracting teams serving the CIA and the broader IC.
DeVido spoke at 4×24 events in January and February 2020.
Maj. Gen. Brian Sidari
Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Intelligence, U.S. Space Force
Maj. Gen. Brian Sidari, who has served in some of the most prestigious positions in DOW space intelligence, became the USSF’s deputy chief of space operations in July 2025. Here he is responsible for intelligence policy, oversight and guidance of Space Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
As a space intelligence professional, Sidari’s priority is less how a satellite works than how an adversary uses it and how that impacts U.S. forces in other domains. He said in a 2024 discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank that this requires the right collection and trained analysis to separate responsible behavior from nefarious activity at the “speed of relevance.”
He’s also a leading expert in Chinese space capabilities. Sidari said that China has closed the gap in space technologies with the U.S. due to its “fail fast” approach. It also has been aided by a commercial sector that blends with the state and is driving the “marketization and commoditization of space.”
Sidari addressed a 4×24 gathering in December. He will speak to 4×24 members at an event in November.
Israel Soong
Adjunct Professor for Intelligence and Cyber Policy, Johns Hopkins University
Soong is a respected authority on southeast Asia, AI and cybersecurity. He previously served as CIA deputy director for the Office of AI, where he was responsible for orchestrating and integrating AI functions across the agency.
He is also a sought-after expert on China through his previous work as the lead director for countering China cyber threats at the National Security Council. In a July 2024 discussion at the Hudson Institute, Soong discussed how the Five Eyes intelligence alliance between the U.S, U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand was an example of a successful intelligence partnership leveraging cybersecurity and technology cooperation.
Soong said intelligence agencies from the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in early 2024, for the first time, issued a joint mutual cybersecurity advisory about the Chinese state-sponsored cyber group known as Volt Typhoon. Soon said that the U.S. has the capacity for more joint cybersecurity advisories with intelligence agencies from other allied nations.
Soong spoke to 4×24 members in November when he was deputy director in the Office of AI at the CIA.
Col. Richard Leach
Director of Intelligence, Defense Information Systems Agency
Leach is one of the Pentagon’s most well-regarded intelligence experts. He was tasked with creating DISA’s new intelligence office, called J-2, in 2024.
This new office, though small in stature, is vital to DISA’s mission to protect and operate the Department of War’s information network, Federal News Network reported. Leach said in 2024 that his priorities in setting up the J-2 were to make sure that its intelligence requirements were not only written but developed by DISA itself and not another part of the DOW.
Leach also created an intelligence billet to ensure that this new office would be comprised of DOW intelligence professionals instead of, for example, signals intelligence or other technological experts.
Leach met with 4×24 members in May 2025.
Brig. Gen. Ryan Gunst
Director of Operations and Military Deputy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Brig. Gen. Ryan Gunst, as NGA director of operations and military deputy, sits at the operational center of GEOINT. As both a DOW combat support agency and a principal member of the IC, NGA provides warfighters, the IC and first responders with a worldwide, firsthand intelligence baseline for their analytical and operational needs.
This includes everything from contributing to the state of readiness of military forces to ensuring safety of navigation in the air, on land or over and under seas. Gunst has also served as the senior staff intelligence officer for the director of intelligence, J-2, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gunst joined a 4×24 gathering in September 2024 when he was commanding general for the Army Reserve’s Military Intelligence Readiness Command.
