Orbimage Inc. announced Nov. 14 that James Simon Jr., has joined the board of directors of parent company Orbimage Holdings, Inc.

Simon served as the assistant director of the Central Intelligence for Administration from 1999 until his retirement in 2003. As deputy to the deputy director of central intelligence for community management, he was responsible for setting policy for and overseeing the budgets of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Simon was named the senior intelligence official for homeland security, where he was responsible for establishing and chairing the Homeland Security Intelligence Council.

He now serves as the founding director of the Reston, Va.-based Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments.