Colonel Nathan Rabe

Colonel Nathan R. Rabe is the Deputy Director, Mission Management, Associate Directorate for Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, VA. He assists the Senior Advisor for Mission Management in leading the integration and alignment of global geospatial- intelligence operations across missions, disciplines, and organizations to achieve the national security and defense objectives of the United States. 

Colonel Rabe entered the Air Force in March 1998 as a distinguished graduate of The Ohio State University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He served in multiple intelligence targeting positions and deployed as a targeteer in support of five named operations. Colonel Rabe also deployed to Afghanistan as the J2, Chief of Operations for a joint special operations task force. Additionally, he served in staff positions at the joint staff, intelligence agency, major command, and numbered air force levels. Colonel Rabe commanded the 93d Intelligence Squadron and was the deputy commander of the 318th Cyberspace Operations Group. Prior to this position, he served as Vice Commander, 363d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA.