By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
ATF agent Scott Sweetow has been named deputy director for the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC).
The intergovernmental agency, which is based at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., coordinates efforts to gather and share intelligence about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), helps disarm and disrupt IEDs, link them to their makers and works to try and prevent attacks.
Sweetow will be responsible for strategic planning and execution, administration, financial management, program management and oversight of the day-to-day operations
The agency, created in 2003, is headed by a director from the FBI Greg Carl. Sweetow represents the ATF in the agency.
In May 2014, Sweetow was named Deputy Assistant Director for ATF’s Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information (OSII).
He began his career with ATF in 1990 in Los Angeles, spent several years assigned in the Arson and Explosives group, and served as a Certified Explosives Specialist. His duties included being part of ATF’s elite National Response Team, which investigated such high-profile crimes as the Oklahoma City bombing and the Centennial Olympic Park bombings.
He also spent several years working criminal intelligence matters, including a weapons case targeting the “The Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman’s one time driver and bodyguard, Hikmat Alharahsheh.
Additionally, he served as special agent in charge of the ATF offices in Atlanta and St. Paul.
