The Pentagon nominated Maj. Gen. Loretta Reynolds on May 18 to be the Marine Corps’ next deputy commander of information warfare.
Pending Senate confirmation, Reynolds, the current commander of Marine Corps Forces Cyber Command, will receive and third star and oversee the service’s cyber, signals intelligence and electronic warfare operations.
She is the second official to hold the deputy commandant for information position since it was created June of last year. Reynolds succeeds Lt. Gen. Daniel O’Donohue who was been selected to serve as the Joint SPtaff’s next J-7 director.
Reynolds has previously voiced her concern for greater industry involvement in creating tactical cyber capabilities for the Marines’ air-ground task force (Defense Daily, April 12), and the need for Cyber Command to make greater use of its new acquisition authority (Defense Daily, March 13).
No successor has been named yet for the next leader of the Marine Corps’ Cyber Command unit.