Scott W. Bray is the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. In this capacity in the Information Warfare Directorate on the Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, he delivers comprehensive, substantive intelligence assessments to Navy leadership, oversees intelligence activities and policies within the Navy, and represents the Navy in the Intelligence Community. Concurrently, Mr. Bray serves as the Director of the Naval Intelligence Activity, an echelon two command tasked with providing oversight and management of the Naval Intelligence Enterprise. Mr. Bray has served in these roles since January 2020. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2007.

Mr. Bray’s experience includes intelligence analysis, intelligence collection, leadership of the Intelligence Community’s East Asia efforts, and extensive interagency integration at the Intelligence Community’s highest levels. He held a number of analytic positions within the Office of Naval Intelligence, including analyst in the Submarine Warfare Operations Research Division (SWORD), senior analyst for Chinese naval warfare, Subject Matter Expert on Chinese Strategy and Doctrine, and the Navy’s Senior Intelligence Officer for China. He served as a Special Assistant to the US Defense Attaché in Beijing, China in 2007-2008. Mr. Bray’s tenure with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began in 2010, when he became the Principal Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Military Issues, where he oversaw the production of National Intelligence Estimates and other national level intelligence assessments on worldwide military issues.

From 2012 to 2020, Mr. Bray was the National Intelligence Manager for East Asia, the US Intelligence Community’s senior official for East Asia matters. He oversaw and integrated all aspects of the IC’s collection, analytic, counterintelligence, foreign partnerships, and resourcing efforts for East Asia and served as the IC’s senior representative to the White House and the interagency process for East Asia issues.

Mr. Bray earned a BS of International Affairs from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in 1998. Georgia Institute of Technology named Mr. Bray a Distinguished Alumnus of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2015. He is a Presidential Rank Award, National Intelligence Superior Service