Pentagon Reorganizes Intel Office, Adds Cyber Post

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http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/12/pentagon-reorganizes-intel-office-adds-cyber-post/75590/

By Stephanie Gaskell
Defense One
December 16, 2013

The Pentagon’s top intelligence policy office is making staff changes to 
address new threats and meet expected budget cuts, including creating a 
director-level position to oversee cybersecurity and other “special 
programs.”

Marcel Lettre, the Pentagon’s newly confirmed principal deputy 
undersecretary of defense for intelligence, on Monday outlined a plan to 
cut the intelligence budget and staff. There are just under 200 people 
working for OUDI. Lettre said there will be cuts to both military and 
civilian personnel, including contractors, but didn’t say how many.

Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered his staff to 
reduce their budgets by 20 percent over the next five years. In 
restructuring, the intel office run by Under Secretary of Defense for 
Intelligence Michael Vickers will add a new “director for defense 
intelligence for technical collection & special programs” that will 
oversee cybersecurity and other programs – a move that illustrates the 
Pentagon’s attempt to protect important programs even in this new era of 
fiscal restraint.

Lettre told reporters that with the war in Iraq over and the war in 
Afghanistan winding down the office is facing “a different set of 
strategic challenges, many of which are enduring.”

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