Sundri K. Khalsa commissioned in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 following eight years in the Air Force as an Intelligence Officer and one year in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where she served as an intelligence analyst at the Counter Terrorism Division. She began developing her proposed Intelligence warning system while serving as the Chief of the Counterintelligence/Counter Terrorism Analysis Cell of the 24th Expeditionary Field Investigations Squadron in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2000 and 2001.