Most recently Dr. Morris served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection where he helped coordinate all Intelligence Community collection activities.

Dr. Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Hampden-Sydney College in 1966 and a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1970 in the area of experimental solid-state physics.

After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Morris spent two years at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Physics before moving to the faculty of the Physics Department at Florida State University. Dr. Morris spent 11 years as a professor at Florida State teaching and conducting a research program concentrating on exploring the electrical and magnetic properties of materials at low temperatures.

In 1984, Dr. Morris took a leave of absence from the university to work with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the CIA and a year later officially joined the Agency. In ORD he held both senior scientist and management positions concentrating on the development of technology to support human and signals intelligence operations. When he left ORD he was chief of the Signals Exploitation Division.

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Morris served in the DCI's Nonproliferation Center (NPC) as Special Assistant for R&D to the Director of NPC where he headed a group whose responsibility was to coordinate government-wide R&D to support the needs of the nonproliferation program.

In 1995, Dr. Morris joined what became the Clandestine MASINT Operations Center (CMOC) in the Office of Technical Collection as Chief of the Systems Analysis Staff. In 1998, he became Deputy Director of CMOC.

In 2000, Dr. Morris became Deputy Director of the Central MASINT Organization in the Defense Intelligence Agency—where he served until he became the Deputy Assistant DCI for Collection in late 2001.

Dr. Morris lives in Arlington, Virginia, has one daughter and two grandsons, and tries to play
Golf every chance he gets.