Molly Broderick
Molly Broderick serves as the Executive Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), bringing extensive experience in strategic leadership, communications, and operational coordination to the role. With a proven track record in managing high-stakes initiatives, she has advised senior leadership in both public and private sectors, driving organizational efficiency and stakeholder collaboration. Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairfield University, her work spans strategic communications, program development, and crisis response, including roles in global health, humanitarian operations, and support programs for Veterans and Gold Star families. Driven by a deep sense of patriotism and a commitment to keeping America safe, Ms. Broderick considers it an honor to serve in this role, where her ability to foster interoperability and lead cross-functional teams helps to ensure the NCTC’s mission of countering terrorism is executed with precision and impact.
Joseph Weirsky
Joe Weirsky serves as the Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He brings nearly three decades of operational and intelligence experience from the U.S. Marine Corps and the Intelligence Community. In his current role, he guides the Center’s efforts to analyze and integrate all intelligence related to terrorism and to drive whole-of-government strategic operational planning to protect the nation from terrorist threats.
Mr. Weirsky grew up in New Jersey where he enlisted into the Marine Corps and served for 26 years retiring in 2020 as a Master Gunnery Sergeant. After attending boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina and graduating the School of Infantry, he served at Marine Barracks 8th & I, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company, and then spent 15 years serving within the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. His military career spanned the Global War on Terror era with multiple deployments, multiple combat deployments, and other worldwide operations, for which he earned several personal and combat awards. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he spent 5 years in private industry, most recently serving as a Chief Operating Officer prior to joining NCTC.
Dedicating a significant portion of his career to military service, Mr. Weirsky specialized in counterterrorism and national security operations aimed at confronting the United States’ most dangerous adversaries. Over the years, he played a key role in identifying emerging threats from hostile nations and non-state actors alike, contributing to strategic missions both at home and abroad. His expertise in combat operations, intelligence analysis, threat assessment, and operational leadership earned him recognition for his unwavering commitment to protecting the American people and safeguarding the homeland.
CAREERS
NCBC's success comes from our diverse workforce, the majority of which is detailed to the Center from other US Government departments and agencies. Consider contributing your skills, expertise and experience to help advance NCBC's mission.
HOW WE WORK
NCBC leads the Intelligence Community's (IC's) efforts to develop integrated strategies and actions both to counter current weapons of mass destruction threats and to anticipate and counter future WMD proliferation.
It does so by:
- Implementing Counterproliferation Strategies. Developing strategies to strengthen the CP mission. NCBC is providing direction and focus for the efforts of the Intelligence Community to address current and looming WMD proliferation issues.
- Emphasizing Motivations, Intentions, and Disincentives. Breaking new ground. By moving beyond the traditional approach of treating WMD proliferation as primarily a technical problem, NCBC is instead promoting a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing and addressing the political, economic, cultural and other security issues related to counterproliferation.
- Countering Proliferation: Beyond Just Report It. Encouraging CP professionals to go beyond simply reporting on proliferators' progress. By identifying opportunities for decision makers to reverse that progress, the NCBC in enhancing the IC's contribution to countering proliferation.
- Ensuring Action and Result. Consistently evaluating the CP IC's performance. NCBC effectively and efficiently determines what is working and what is not, allowing a refocusing of efforts and resources accordingly.
- Looking "Over-the-Horizon." Partnering with senior policymakers, NCBC is leading effots to develop collection and analytic strategies for emerging, over-the-horizon WMD threats, positioning the Intelligence Community to warn stakeholders of such threats and provide the insights needed to counter them as early as possible.
- Focusing on the WMD and Terrorism Nexus. Working closely with the National Counterterrorism Center, NCBC is ensuring that all resources are leverages within the respective communities to deny terrorists and rouge states access to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear capabilities.
- Working to Close Gaps. NCBC is developing strategic plans and consistently applying performance metrics to eliminate critical intelligence gaps on the U.S. Government's highest priority WMD proliferation concerns.
- Enabling Real Information Sharing. NCBC's "Responsibility-to-Provide" Initiative is ensuring WMD analysts and collectors are receiving access to the full set of technical and non-technical information needed to understand and counter WMD proliferation.
- Involving Outside Experts.NCBC is collaborating with experts outside of government to advance the counterproliferation mission. It created, for example, the Biological Sciences Experts Group to tap the expertise of our nation's scientific talent in academia and industry to address bio threats.
- Developing Our Nations' Newest Counterproliferation Tools. By creating a Research, Development, and Integration (RDI) Fund (formerly known as the Innovation Fund), the NCBC is ensuring that the Intelligence Community can explore the newest and most innovative technologies and methodologies to tackle our toughest problems. This provides "seed money" for creative, multi-agency solutions to WMD intelligence challenges allowing NCBC to develop and promote new ways to solve hard problems.