Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has announced the appointment of Collin Lee as space business development vice president. Lee, who previously worked as VP of intelligence systems at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, made the announcement via LinkedIn on Tuesday.

Lee has had a 23-year career that has revolved around business consulting, defense and intelligence. After earning a bachelor’s degree in public administration at James Madison University, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as senior consultant before moving to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) in 2003.

In May 2007, Lee became legislative liaison at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where he stayed for more than four years before being appointed as director of legislative affairs at the National Security Council.

Lee started his term at General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) as director of strategy and business development and was later named director of the company’s Frontiers space technology incubator.