Marcel lettre biography

He has a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Marcel Lettre (born August 9, 1972) is a former United States federal government official.
Marcel Lettre is a former United States federal government official.

•

Bio

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in 2017 where he supports work for the US Intelligence Community, Marcel was Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the top intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the top defense advisor to the Director of National Intelligence.

His responsibilities included overseeing about 100,000 people and $17 billion across nine defense intelligence and security organizations, key foreign defense intelligence relationships, defense intelligence support to current operations, and development of innovative new defense intelligence capabilities. His team had a particular emphasis on driving seamless integration of intelligence and SOF operations in counterterrorism, most notably in counter-ISIS operations, and in new classified capabilities and operational approaches for addressing challenges from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Marcel’s Pentagon service under four Secretaries of Defense also included serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Leon Panetta and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense fo

•

President Barack Obama on Aug. 5, 2015, nominated Marcel Lettre to be the under secretary of defense for intelligence, a job he is currently filling on an acting basis.

Lettre was born Aug. 9, 1972, in Gainesville, Ga. He’s the son of a former Army officer, also named Marcel, who was a paratrooper. Lettre attended the University of the South-Sewanee, graduating in 1994 with a B.A. in political science. He also earned a master’s degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Lettre’s first position after college was as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1995, he was as senior staff assistant in the Office of the President of American University. Around this time, Lettre, his brother Peter and their father hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, taking six months to do so.

In 1998 and 1999, Lettre worked as a senior policy analyst for the Deutch Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction. He t

•

Marcel Lettre

Marcel Lettre is a former United States federal government official. He was the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from December 2015 to January 2017, after which he took a well-paid job for Lockheed Martin.

Early life

Marcel Lettre graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South.^[1] He earned a master's degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[1]

Career

From 2005-2009, Lettre served as Senior Defense and Intelligence Advisor and then as Senior National Security Advisor to the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, handling all “Gang of Eight” intelligence matters for the Leader. In this role he shaped national security legislation and intelligence policy initiatives, and supported securing passage of the annual defense and intelligence authorization bills, appropriations bills, and war supplementals; and handled Senate confirmation of senior defense and intelligence officials.^[2]

Lettre was nominated as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence by President Barack Obama on August 5, 2015.