Welcoming Bridget Johnson

Our team at Gate 15 continually strives to improve the value of our work for both our client projects and to better support the private and public communities we collaborate with. Our blog is one way in which we are able to share ideas with the broader community.

Today, we are very excited to welcome Bridget Johnson to our Gate 15 team. We’re glad to have counted Bridget as a friend to this team for some time, and you can read our  interview from May here: An Interview with Bridget Johnson, Veteran Journalist & Washington Editor for PJ Media. We are now extremely happy to welcome Bridget to the Gate 15 team directly, where she joins us as a Senior Risk Analyst.

We look forward to Bridget sharing her insight and perspective in forthcoming posts here and in support of other efforts. Welcome to the team, Bridget!


Bridget Johnson is a Senior Risk Analyst with Gate 15 and a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits. Bridget is Washington Bureau Chief for PJ Media. Follow Bridget on Twitter: @Bridget_PJM


Gate 15 provides intelligence and threat information to inform routine situational awareness, preparedness planning, and to penetrate the decision-making cycle to help inform time-sensitive decisions effecting operations, security, and resources. We provide clients with routine cyber and physical security products tailored to the individual client’s interests.  Such products include relevant analysis, assessments, and mitigation strategies on a variety of topics.