Jason Coffey’s Full CV

Jason Coffey is a career counterterrorism and intelligence manager who served nearly 30 years in the US Government, retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in September 2024 after helping lead the Bureau’s post‑9/11 transformation. He began his federal service in 1995 on active duty with the US Navy at Naval Station Anacostia, where he was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal, and joined the FBI in 1998 as a paralegal and FBI Historian at FBIHQ working with historically significant records, including files related to Operation Paperclip.

Coffey launched his intelligence career in 2000 with a joint duty assignment to the FBIHQ Counterterrorism Division, serving in the 24/7 Strategic Information Operations Center, where he was on duty the morning of 9/11 and went on to support the PENTTBOM investigation, Amerithrax case, and SNIPEMUR investigation. In 2004, he moved to the FBI Los Angeles Field Office as a Reports Officer on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, later becoming a front‑line supervisor over a tactical counterterrorism analytic squad in the new Field Intelligence Group, then managing reports officers and an all‑source, all‑program strategic analysis team that helped pilot the FBI’s Threat Review and Prioritization (TRP) risk‑based threat management process, which was ultimately implemented enterprise‑wide.

Coffey deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 in support of the War on Terror, and upon returning to Los Angeles was promoted to Intelligence Program Coordinator with oversight of six teams and more than 50 personnel spanning the full intelligence cycle. Over his FBI career, he received numerous honors and awards, including being a two‑time recipient of the FBI Medal of Excellence, and supported major terrorism investigations and command posts such as the Jam’iyyat Ul‑Islam Is‑Saheeh (JIS) homegrown terrorism case, the 2015 San Bernardino attack, Operation Bell Bottoms, and the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab “underwear bomber” case.

A committed practitioner of lifelong learning, Coffey completed numerous advanced courses and certification programs at the FBI Academy, CIA University, and other Intelligence Community advanced analyst venues focused on strategic analysis, leadership, and mission management. In his final FBI role, he oversaw the Domestic DNI program in the US Southwest, expanding participation from federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private‑sector partners and creating recurring roundtables to strengthen public‑private collaboration on terrorism and national security issues. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from George Mason University, is married with four children, and can usually be found volunteering on the soccer pitch coaching or refereeing youth players.