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John R. Knight
Chief Executive Officer
Colonel, US Army (Retired)

Mr. John R. Knight is Chief Executive Officer (CEO), JB&A, INC., a service-disabled, veteran-owned business established in 1988 to provide in-depth consultation and facilitation services concentrating on Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) system and National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP) support to Department of Defense and United States Intelligence Community activities.  Mr. Knight leads the company’s strategic planning process which concentrates on establishment and accomplishment of company goals and objectives related to revenue growth and increasing company value.  He also coordinates centralized marketing activities oriented to prospective clients to ensure consistent focus on the company’s goals and objectives.  Additionally, Mr. Knight is a Trustee for the company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).  Mr. Knight was elected to his present position by the company’s Board of Directors effective July 2008 after having served as the company’s President from January 2003 through June 2008, and as the company’s Executive Vice President from October 2000 through December 2002.  Prior to his election as Executive Vice President, Mr. Knight was a company Vice President and Program Manager.

Mr. Knight joined JB&A, INC. in July 1995 as a Principal Program Analyst in support of the Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA), G-2, Army Intelligence Master Plan (AIMP).  In this capacity, Mr. Knight developed automated theater operational intelligence architectures functionality for U.S. Army and U.S. Forces in the European Theater, the Pacific Theater, and the Korean sub-theater.  Ground intelligence planners and HQDA intelligence staff officers and senior leaders used his work extensively in designing and sustaining Army Intelligence support to ground forces during NATO operations in Bosnia-Herzogovina beginning in 1996.  Mr. Knight also successfully directed the company’s proposal development and writing effort which led to award of its multi-year, multiple man-year level of effort AIMP subcontract with MYSTECH Associates (later Sterling Software, later Computer Associates, later LOGICON, later Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems) in September 1996.  This subcontract award provided the solid foundation upon which the company began its very successful growth curve. As the company’s AIMP Program Manager, Mr. Knight was significantly involved in the review of Army Intelligence force structure directed by the Army G-2 in late 1998.  The demand for force structure details at the individual position level, with funding source, led to JB&A Associates defining unprecedented data access and analysis tools using existing Army data and databases; these tools continue in use at the present time.  Since his election as the company’s Executive Vice President, Mr. Knight has led and managed the revenue growth of the company from nearly $5 Million at the end of 2000 to nearly $57 Million at the end of 2009. 

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Knight was a career US Army officer who completed 26 ½ years of active duty service in principally Military Intelligence assignments in the continental United States (CONUS), Europe, and Southeast Asia.  He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Military Intelligence, in December 1967 as a graduate of The Ohio State University and Army ROTC.  Following completion of the Infantry Officers’ Basic Course and the Intelligence Research Officers’/Technicians’ (Counterintelligence) Course, he assumed duties as Operations Officer, and later, Commander, Newark Field Office, Region II, 108th Military Intelligence (MI) Group, Newark, NJ.  In December 1968, Mr. Knight deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam where he was assigned to the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Headquarters, XXIV Corps, as an order of battle officer and all-source analysis officer.  Returning to CONUS, he assumed duties as the Assistant Operations Officer, and later, Operations Officer, Region V, 112th MI Group, New Orleans, LA from January 1970 until he completed his initial obligated tour of active duty.  Following 15 months in inactive status with the US Army Reserve, Mr. Knight accepted voluntary recall to active duty and, in May 1972, reported to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, US Army, Europe and Seventh Army, for successive assignments as Chief, Field Support Branch, Assistant Training Officer, and Intelligence Staff Officer (Defensive and Offensive Counterintelligence Operations).  In March 1976, Mr. Knight activated and assumed command of the US Army Special Security Detachment, 5th Infantry Division (Mech). Upon inactivation of the detachment, he served consecutively as Assistant G-2 (Air), S-2, 1st Brigade, and Intelligence Operations Platoon Leader, 15th MI Company/Assistant Operations Officer, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2.  In June 1980, Mr. Knight returned to Europe for assignment as Executive Officer and strategic/operational intelligence analyst, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Headquarters, Central Army Group (NATO).  In June 1983, he reported to the US Army ROTC Instructor Battalion, The Ohio State University, for duties as Executive Officer and senior Assistant Professor of Military Science. In November 1986, Mr. Knight again returned to Europe where he was assigned as Chief, Operations, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Headquarters, VII (US) Corps and then, in May 1988, as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, 3d Infantry Division (Mech).  Following three years as the Marne Division’s senior intelligence officer, Mr. Knight returned to CONUS for assignment to the Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-2 in June 1991.  During four years on the Army departmental staff, Mr. Knight served as an Intelligence Staff Officer, the Chief, Plans Division, and the Chief, Plans and Modernization Support Division/Director, Army Intelligence Master Plan.  Mr. Knight was placed on the US Army retired rolls with the rank of Colonel effective September 1, 1995.  His personal awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal (multiple awards), the Army Commendation Medal (multiple awards), the National Defense Service Medal (multiple awards) and numerous individual overseas service and campaign awards as well as multiple unit awards.

Mr. Knight earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University, and a Master of Science, Business Administration degree from Boston University.  He also completed the US Army Infantry Officers’ Basic Course (Commandant’s List), the US Army Intelligence Research Officers’/Technicians’ (Counterintelligence) Course, the US Army Military Intelligence Officers’ Advanced Course (Commandant’s List), the US Army Command & General Staff College, the DLIFLC Basic German Language Course (with Honors), the NATO Staff Officers’ Orientation Course, and the Amphibious Warfare Course, UK Royal Defense College.

Mr. Knight is a member in good standing of the following professional and fraternal organizations:

Military Intelligence Corps Association (MICA), National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA), Association of the United States Army (AUSA), Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), Association of Old Crows (AOC), Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association (AFCEA), The Ohio State University Alumni Association (Life Member), Boston University Alumni Association, and Knights of Columbus (3rd Degree).

Mr. Knight is married to the former Laura Wulf, RN, BSN.  They are the parents of three adult daughters, Mrs. Julie McCollough, CPA, Placitas, NM, Mrs. Amy Drouet, CNMT, MBA, Pearland, TX, and Mrs. Jennifer Passino, DPT, Harrisburg, NC.