Deirdre M. Walsh is the Executive Vice President for Strategy and Government Affairs for ARKA Group.

Previous to ARKA, she served as Vice President of Strategic Operations for Ball Aerospace & Technologies.

Walsh was appointed to the Senior National Intelligence Service in June 2013, and has been employed by the ODNI for more than ten years.

She was previously deputy director of Congressional and public affairs at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Preceding her assignment to NRO, she supported the assistant director of national intelligence/chief financial officer in the Performance and Budget Justification Group at ODNI.