Mary K Sturdivant

Early Career and BDM Corporation

Prior to her government service, Sturdivant worked at BDM International (Braddock, Dunn, and MacDonald Corporation), a technical services firm headquartered at Fort Bliss, Texas, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. At BDM, she conducted research and analysis on defense and arms control issues, with specific focus on technology transfer projects — experience that would later inform her CIA work analyzing Soviet acquisition of Western dual-use technology.

BDM itself holds significance in UAP research:

• The corporation specialized in missile guidance, applied optics, electronic instrumentation, and radiation physics
• Founded in 1959 alongside MITRE Corporation and Aerospace Corporation (both DOE FFRDCs implicated in UAP programs)
• Named specifically by Commander Will Miller in the Wilson-Davis notes as one of the contractors where "keepers of the secrets" resided, alongside Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC
• Hosted Albert Stubblebine as VP after his 1984 departure from US Army INSCOM (Intelligence and Security Command), an organization also implicated in UAP crash retrieval operations
• Hosted an advanced theoretical physics conference in 1985 to discuss UFO reverse engineering opportunities
• Hosted Rear Admiral Sumar Shapiro on its board — Shapiro told Bob Echler (at Admiral Bobby Ray Inman's recommendation) about recovered UFOs he had studied personally

Sturdivant's time at BDM potentially placed her in proximity to UAP-related technical work during a formative period of her career.

CIA Career

Sturdivant began her CIA career in 1985 at the CIA Directorate of Intelligence's Technology Transfer Assessment Center, analyzing the role of Soviet intelligence in acquiring Western dual-use technology. She subsequently moved to the CIA Counterintelligence Center before a critical career transition: she was appointed Deputy Director of the Clandestine Information Technology Office at the CIA in 1999.

This position is particularly significant because the Clandestine Information Technology Office operated as a joint venture between the CIA Directorate of Operations (the Clandestine Service) and the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology. UAP Gerb has previously implicated both of these CIA directorates in UFO legacy program operations:

• DS&T has been linked to technical intelligence on UAP crash retrievals, oversight of recovered materials programs, and creation of the CIA Office of Global Access for foreign crash retrieval logistics
• Directorate of Operations has been implicated in naval UFO recovery missions and clandestine crash retrieval operations

Sturdivant's 1999 position placed her at the operational intersection of these two directorates during a period when both were allegedly active in UAP-related activities.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Following her CIA work, Sturdivant was recruited to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), where she served for approximately eight years. In this role, she:

• Evaluated tactical military programs
• Provided advice on CIA programs
• Served as budget director responsible for all staff support for the annual authorization of the intelligence budget

During her SSCI tenure, Sturdivant worked closely with Chris Mellon, who served as a professional staff member on SSCI from 1989 to 1996. Documentary evidence shows the two attended identical SSCI briefings and professional meetings from at least 1989 through 1996, with identical per diem and transportation costs during the January-March 1996 period suggesting they traveled together to the same series of meetings.

Mellon's later involvement with To The Stars Academy alongside Lockheed Skunk Works veteran Steve Justice creates an additional layer of connection between Sturdivant, Lockheed UAP programs, and public UAP disclosure efforts.

National Reconnaissance Office and National Security Council

After SSCI, Sturdivant returned to the executive branch intelligence community, serving as:

• CIA Agency Comptroller — Supporting the Director of Central Intelligence's strategic decisions and introducing information technology to office functions
• NRO Deputy Director for National Support (2004-2006) — A senior leadership position at the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for satellite reconnaissance and overhead collection
• Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council (2001) — Under President George W. Bush, coordinating intelligence program policy at the White House level

This career arc from CIA analyst to NRO deputy director to NSC senior director represents an extraordinary rise through the intelligence community's most sensitive and compartmentalized structures.

Lockheed Martin Career (2006-2021)

In 2006, Sturdivant transitioned to the private sector, joining Lockheed Martin as:

• Vice President for Government Affairs (2006-2021)
• Vice President for Intelligence, Joint, and Science and Technology Programs (at least 2011-2015)

Her tenure at Lockheed Martin placed her in a position of significant authority over the corporation's most classified programs during the exact period when James T. Ryder was attempting to transfer recovered UAP materials to AAWSAP via Kona Blue. As VP for Intelligence, Joint, and Science and Technology Programs, Sturdivant would have had visibility into — and potentially oversight authority over — any Lockheed programs involving technologies of unknown origin.

Role in Alleged Kona Blue Blocking

UAP researchers theorize that Sturdivant may have played a coordinating role in the CIA's stonewalling of the Kona Blue technology transfer, potentially serving as a CIA liaison within Lockheed Martin. The circumstantial evidence for this theory includes:

1. Temporal Overlap: Sturdivant was serving as Lockheed VP during the 2008-2011 Kona Blue attempts
2. Portfolio Overlap: Her role as VP for Intelligence, Joint, and Science and Technology Programs would have encompassed any UAP material custody programs
3. DS&T Connection: Her 1999 role in the joint DS&T/Directorate of Operations office created professional ties to the directorate that Glenn Gaffney would later lead as Deputy Director when he blocked the transfer
4. Agency Loyalty: The principle of "once agency, always agency" — CIA officers maintain lifelong loyalty to the agency even after transitioning to private sector roles
5. Proximity to Ryder: Both Sturdivant and James T. Ryder held VP-level positions at Lockheed Martin Space Systems during the transfer attempts, suggesting they worked in close professional proximity

The theory posits that when Gaffney met with Lockheed executives to block the transfer, Sturdivant may have been one of those executives, and that she may have coordinated with Gaffney to ensure the transfer was killed from both the CIA side and the Lockheed side.

Christopher Mellon Connection

When UAP researchers suggested approaching Chris Mellon to ask about Sturdivant's role in Kona Blue, Mellon reportedly declined to question her. Mellon's close SSCI working relationship with Sturdivant in the 1990s, combined with his later prominent role in UAP disclosure through To The Stars Academy, creates an interesting dynamic: Mellon has been publicly advocating for UAP transparency while potentially protecting a former colleague who may have been instrumental in blocking Congressional oversight of UAP materials.

NRO Leadership Recognition

Sturdivant is recognized in the National Reconnaissance Office's "Leaders of the NRO" Volume 3 publication, though specific details of her contributions remain classified. Her sparse online footprint — unusual for someone of her seniority — suggests active management of her public profile, potentially for operational security reasons related to continued sensitivity of her past work.

Sources

• Video - Lockheed Martin - UFO Reverse Engineering, Material Exploitation, & Legacy Programs
• Video - National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program Gatekeepers