Jay M. Cohen

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Jay M. Cohen is a retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy and currently Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

He entered the Navy in 1968 as an ensign after graduation from the United States Naval Academy. His last assignment in the Navy was (20th) Chief of Naval Research. He retired as a serviceman on February 1, 2006. Cohen was sworn in as Under Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security on August 10, 2006.

Cohen received a joint Ocean Engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a Master of Science degree in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture from MIT.