CSM Staff

CSM Staff

Linda Ellinger

Ms. Ellinger joined CSM in 2001 after 30 years of service with the federal government. During her federal tenure, she held a diverse series of appointments that began at the Social Security Administration Headquarters in Baltimore. In 1987, Ms. Ellinger joined the Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Management Division as a Budget Analyst and later as a Staff Assistant to the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. In the latter position, Ms. Ellinger had the opportunity to work on several assignments involving coordination of DOJ management activities. In 1993, she became a Special Assistant to the Executive Officer and Chief of the Resource Planning and Evaluation Staff for the DOJ Criminal Division. From August 1995 until her departure in January 2001, Ms. Ellinger was Deputy Director for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program with nationwide responsibility for coordinating collaboration among nine federal law enforcement agencies to successfully prosecute major drug trafficking cartels.

Since joining CSM, she has worked with CSM’s National Security clients to develop strategic plans, establish and manage planning and performance processes, and effectively integrate these processes into programmatic and operational decision-making and accountability mechanisms. She has worked with the FBI on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives that contributed to the recent revitalization of its Counterintelligence Program. As part of CSM’s team, she developed the FBI’s Counterintelligence Vulnerability Assessment and piloted this tool in GD Land Systems Detroit, C4 Systems in Scottsdale, and Groton Naval Shipyards in Groton, CT. She is currently working with the FBI to develop criteria and an assessment protocol for evaluating the effectiveness of its Field Intelligence Program.