Letitia Long

Letitia Long
5th Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
In office August 2010 – October 2014
President	Barack Obama
Succeeded by	Robert Cardillo
Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
In office May 2006 – July 2010
President	George W. Bush, Barack Obama
Personal details
Born	1958/1959 (age 55–56)[1]
Alma mater	Virginia Tech
Nickname(s)	Tish

Letitia A. Long was the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from August 2010 to October 2014. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of UrtheCast Corp. (TSX: UR), effective February 23, 2015. During her tenure at NGA, she led efforts to establish the agency’s first ‘Map of the World’, for intelligence users. Under her guidance, NGA became the first U.S. agency to adopt open-source software development to deliver its software to first responders for collaboration, during and after natural disasters. Prior to her appointment to NGA, Ms. Long served as the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2006 until 2010.^[2]

Prior to taking over as NGA director on August 9, 2010, Long served as the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from May 2006 until July 2010. Previously, she was the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (Policy, Requirements, and Resources) from June 2003 until May 2006. She also served in the positions of Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence from July 2000 to June 2003 and the Director of Central Intelligence’s Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs, responsible for community-wide policy formulation, resource planning and program assessment and evaluation between January 1998 and June 2000.

Among other professional achievements, Ms. Long has been the recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service, the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive, the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive (two awards) and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal (three awards). In 2011, she received the Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, was decorated with the Medal of Merit by the King of Norway, and was appointed to the rank of Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France. She was also named one of the Most Powerful Women in the D.C. Metro area by Washingtonian magazine in 2013 and was honored with a 2014 Federal 100 Award by FCW magazine.^[3]

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• NGA Key Officials