LTG MARY LEGERE2020 And Beyond

LTG Mary Legere is one of the highest-ranking

women in the United States Army.

She was promoted to the rank of Three Star

General in April 2012 and has served her

country for more than thirty years.

She is the Senior Army Representative in the

U.S. Intelligence Community, and one of

seventeen Senior Intelligence Officers in the

United States Intelligence Community.

“In this role,” she explains, “I have been

responsible for assisting the Army in driving

the transformation of it’s Intelligence Corps

from a focus on operations in Afghanistan and

Iraq toward meeting the emerging threats of

our Globally Engaged and Regionally Aligned

Army around the globe.”

Key elements of the strategic plan, she said, which is called the U.S. Army

intelligence 2020 and beyond, include:

• Strengthening and Modernizing the Army’s Global Intelligence Information Foundational Layer

• Shepherding the Army’s Distributed Common Ground Station through its evolution and global deployment, ensuring it remains responsive to soldier needs, and capable of leveraging the technological opportunities of the Intelligence Community Cloud

• Driving the Army-wide effort to modernize

and consolidate the Army’s Global Processing,

Exploitation and Dissemination

• Expanding the Army’s investment in Human

Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Open Source

Intelligence and multidiscipline intelligence

support to Cyber Operations

• Consolidating, Modernizing and Expanding the

Army’s Aerial ISR Fleet to provide greater global

responsiveness to support for Army and Joint

Commanders

• Introducing new Army Intelligence formations

to increase the national to tactical and

multidiscipline intelligence capabilities and

capacity, including 10 additional brigade sized

organizations

Now in the fourth year of an extensive

modernization effort, Army Intelligence is

continuing to demonstrate exceptional agility in

supporting Army operations in multiple

theaters, while also developing and rapidly on-

boarding state of the art capabilities to better

support the Army’s many emerging and urgent

needs.

As Legere noted in a recent address to industry, “As the Army’s Senior Intelligence Officer, it has been my responsibility to work with the Army, the Intelligence Community and Congress , to ensure the Army continues to field the best possible MI Force, with the most responsive and adaptive expeditionary capabilities and formations we can resource, ensuring we have the regionally expert multi-discipline Intelligence Force our Army requires, while introducing advanced technologies, skill sets and formations to improve the intelligence support we provide to our forces across the globe. “

Selected in 2012 to be the Army’s Senior

Intelligence Officer, she was responsible for

the operations, readiness and modernization

of the Army’s 58,000 person Intelligence

Corps.

She served in this position from April 2012 to

March 2016, the longest serving General

Officer in this position’s history.