President, Blue Atlas Group FBI Special Agent (ret.)
Brig Barker is the President and Special Programs Officer for the Blue Atlas Group which is an
AI innovation and solutions company serving law enforcement, the U.S. government, and private
industry.
Brig is a retired FBI agent having held positions from counterterrorism case agent to senior
advisor embedded with DOD Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Prior to the FBI, he served
five years as an Army officer in the 82nd Airborne with various deployments to include that to Northern
Iraq.
During his FBI career, he spent the majority of his time on a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) with
15 overseas deployments to Africa and the Middle East. He originally spent five years working as a case
agent on a JTTF where he was a SWAT operator and FBI certified sniper. Further, Mr. Barker was a
JTTF Squad Supervisor and Counterterrorism Program Coordinator in two separate FBI offices.
In addition, Mr. Barker was selected and served as the embedded Senior FBI Advisor at USSOCOM based
in Tampa, Florida for two years. In 2015, he completed a deployment to Tunisia working ISIS and Libya
matters. Mr. Barker further deployed to Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda in 1998 as part of the Al
Qaida Embassy Bombings investigation, and later to Cairo, Egypt immediately after the attacks on
9/11/2001. In 2006, Mr. Barker opened the Freetown, Sierra Leone FBI Attaché office where he led the
acclaimed Blood Diamonds investigation. He further was the primary counterterrorism interrogation
instructor for the FBI Training Division for two years during which he was also an instructor for the FBI
National Academy program where he taught a course on counterterrorism strategies for local law
enforcement. Mr. Barker is an FBI trained Arabic speaker and is conversational in Farsi and German.
He developed and has taught Survival Arabic for Law Enforcement for over 10 years. He is the author of the
book, “The Dark Trajectory of Jihad”, and has 15+ Counterterrorism articles professionally published in
Law Enforcement and military publications to include the primary interrogation article for the West Point
Counterterrorism textbook, Terrorism and Political Islam. His masters thesis, “Decoding the Language of
Jihad”, a comprehensive study in Islamic statement analysis and exegesis, was published in Middle East Quarterly. His most recent articles include, “ISIS: Nothing new under the sun” and “Salafi/Takfiri Micro-
Theology: The Non-Illusive and Motivational Ideology Behind Jihadist Attacks In The 21st Century.”
While in the FBI, Brig was awarded interrogation instructor of the year and was also honored with the
Joint Civilian Service Commendation by DOD USSOCOM for his work against Al Qaida. While in the
Army, Brig earned the Ranger Tab, Senior Jumper (Jumpmaster) award, and the German and Italian Jump
Wings.
