Letitia Long

Letitia A. Long entered civilian federal service with the Navy in 1978 as a project engineer in training at the David Taylor Research Center, took her electrical engineering degree at Virginia Tech in 1982, worked six years "on various submarine acoustic sensor programs," and joined the staff of the Director of Naval Intelligence in 1988 to manage its research and development programs. Selected into the Senior Intelligence Executive Service in July 1994, she was "on rotational assignment from ONI to the Defense Intelligence Agency" from 1994 to 1996 as director of the Military Intelligence Staff, in which capacity she signed, as "Director, DMI Staff," DIA's response of March 1995 to the Senate's directed action on Star Gate, transmitting its retrospective review, technical analysis and declassification status to the CIA (1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA). She joined DIA in 1996 as deputy director for information systems and services and its first chief information officer; was the Director of Central Intelligence's Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs from January 1998 to June 2000, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence from 2000 to 2003, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (Policy, Requirements and Resources) from 2003 to 2006, Deputy Director of DIA from May 2006 to July 2010, and fifth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from August 9, 2010, to 2014.¹²

Boards

Raytheon elected her a director on March 18, 2015; she chaired its public policy and corporate responsibility committee from 2017 and was to serve until its merger with United Technologies. Parsons Corporation nominated her in March 2020, listing her as a director of Noblis, Quadrint and HyperSat, formerly of UrtheCast, D-Wave Government and Sonatype, vice rector of the Virginia Tech board of advisors, chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance and a director of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Corporate Office Properties Trust, which described its portfolio as "in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology," added her to its board in October 2020. T-Mobile US, "required to have a 'National Security Director' pursuant to our national security commitments entered into in connection with the Sprint Combination," appointed her to that seat on June 22, 2021, in succession to Stephen Kappes.³