I need help with interpreting something that Matt Ford said on his recent Nazca Mummies episode. Maybe Sean Kirkpatrick knows the people Matt was talking about?

During Matt Ford’s “The Good Trouble Show” episode on Nazca Peru Mummies, he said something I found interesting at 2:56:00:

“..It’s not supposed to be a government run by the military industrial complex, and a group of, 50 or so senior executive service or subject matter experts, these career bureaucrats that are running the show.”

50 or so senior executive service or subject matter experts and careerists.

Is Matt Ford referring to a specific organization (or group) that takes this shape? I truly don’t know and would appreciate some thoughts. Can someone review Sean Kirkpatrick’s resume below for exposure to a potential “group of 50 MIC careerists”?

As many have said before, Kirkpatrick seems to be a modern day Hynek. I think he’ll be important to this moving forward no matter where he goes. He published this with Avi Loeb, and I think he very clearly knows more than he says.

Kirkpatrick on the left, Hynek on the Right

SEAN KIRKPATRICKS WORK HISTORY

Info another user put together about Sean Kirkpatrick:

In 1997, he was recruited by the Air Force Research Laboratory to build an Ultrafast Laser Physics Lab to investigate nonlinear optics, novel ultrafast spectroscopic methods, and nonlinear micro/nano-fabrication techniques for the Air Force.

(I found it interesting that Kirkpatrick worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as a Senior Research Scientist during this time.)

in 2003 he patented nanofabrication technology and was offered a program manager position in the National Reconnaissance Office and converted to CIA in 2005. In 2007, he was assigned as Chief Technology Officer in a joint CIA-DIA program office, where he later became division chief as a DIA officer. In 2010 he was asked to serve as the space control portfolio manager for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Space and Intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

In 2012 he returned to DIA and served as the Defense Intelligence Officer for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, serving as the Department of Defense’s counterpart to the National Intelligence Manager for Science and Technology until 2016. Towards the end of his tenure as DIO/S&TI, Dr. Kirkpatrick served on special assignment to the Principal Deputy Director National Intelligence leading the Intelligence Community’s support to the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (now the National Space Defense Center).

From 2016 onwards, Dr. Kirkpatrick served in a variety of no-fail roles including Deputy Director of Intelligence, US Strategic Command; Director, National Security Strategy, National Security Council; Deputy Director of Intelligence and the DNI Representative for USSPACECOM

He took over AARO Director in 2022 when it was established and recently left.

SAIC SERIES

Kirkpatrick’s connection to SAIC is intriguing. I’ve been looking into them a lot lately.

Thanks to u/transcendental1 for highlighting this part of Matt Ford’s episode in this recent post.