FBI National Security Branch Operations Director Matthew Fodor to Keynote 2026 Intel Summit

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If you want to partner with the FBI, CIA, NGA, NRO and more, this is the event for you. persons captured providing material support to ISIS while managing extraterritorial investigations across Europe, the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant Executive-level roles: Fodor at his desk when he was special agent in charge of the FBI's Tampa division.

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Space Force and DEA, plus panels on agentic AI adoption, OSINT, cybersecurity and quantum risk in classified environments. Fodor's remarks ground those technology conversations in the operational reality of counterterrorism, offering contractors a read on where FBI mission priorities and partnership opportunities are headed. It isn't often that intelligence community leaders get this candid and share their priorities and mission statements this transparently.

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24 at the Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park in northern Virginia. Few speakers on this year's Intel Summit roster have moved through as many layers of the counterterrorism mission as Fodor, whose two decades of frontline investigations, program oversight and executive command make him one of the summit's most operationally grounded voices. His FBI career, which began in 2006, has run almost entirely through counterterrorism — first tracking international terrorism threats out of the Washington Field Office, then widening into program management, field leadership and now branch-level strategy at headquarters.

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