Tim Brown
Senior Associate
Tim Brown is a Senior Associate at Pike Consultants LLC, specializing in commercial imagery intelligence and related activities. While principally responsible for primary imagery exploitation, Brown coordinates imagery tasking, acquisition and dissemination and exploitation with external consumers and analysts at other institutions. He is responsible for maintaining and updating imagery product archives, as well as hardware and software configuration control.
Prior to joining Pike Consultants LLC, Brown was a Security Analyst working on the Public Eye project at the Federation of American Scientists. While with FAS, Tim worked for three years exploiting declassified CORONA satellite imagery of the Soviet Union, China and North Korea, as well as the newly available IKONOS 1-meter imagery from Space Imaging Corp.
Before coming to FAS he was the Warren Brooks fellow at the Cato Institute studying environmental issues. Tim graduated from the American University in 1990 with a degree in International Service and concentrations in national security, foreign policy and intelligence. Tim has written on the use of commercial space imaging satellites for arms control and regional security. Tim has also worked for the Department of Energy on counter-terrorist issues.