Jason Elder

Senior Counterintelligence SME for Sancorp’s Counterintelligence Analytical Support team at the Office of the Under Secretary for Intelligence & Security.

Jason Elder joined Sancorp Consulting in May 2020, where he is a Senior Counterintelligence SME for the Counterintelligence Analytical Support team at the Office of the Under Secretary for Intelligence & Security (OUSD(I&S))’s Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement and Security directorate. Before this position, Jason served in the Office of the Under Secretary for Research & Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Maintaining Technology Advantage office, where he supported policy and oversight for the DoD’s Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation protection efforts. During this time, he also served as an OUSD(R&E) representative to the DoD’s Protecting Critical Technology Task Force. Before his time with OUSD(R&E), Jason led OUSD(I&S)’s Studies contract, where he conducted Counterintelligence, Insider Threat, and Personnel Security studies, while concurrently directly supporting OUSD(I&S)’s Industrial Security team. Before Jason’s contract support for the DoD, he served as a government employee for Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations as a senior Counterintelligence analyst in the Technology Protection branch, and also served as the AFOSI liaison to the DIA’s Supply Chain Risk Management Threat Analysis Center. Jason’s DoD service began as a Counterintelligence Agent for the Department of Army, and as an Army Infantry officer. Jason holds two master’s degrees from the Johns Hopkins University – an MBA and an MA in Government.  He lives in Maryland with his wife and 3 children.