2. LTG Mary Legere is one of the highest-ranking
women in the United States Army.
She was promoted to the rank of Three Star
General in April 2012 and has served her
country for more than thirty years.
3. She is the Senior Army Representative in the
U.S. Intelligence Community, and one of
seventeen Senior Intelligence Officers in the
United States Intelligence Community.
4. “In this role,” she explains, “I have been
responsible for assisting the Army in driving
the transformation of it’s Intelligence Corps
from a focus on operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq toward meeting the emerging threats of
our Globally Engaged and Regionally Aligned
Army around the globe.”
5. Key elements of the strategic plan, she
said, which is called the U.S. Army
intelligence 2020 and beyond, include:
• Strengthening and Modernizing the Army’s
Global Intelligence Information Foundational
Layer
• Shepherding the Army’s Distributed Common
Ground Station through its evolution and global
deployment, ensuring it remains responsive to
soldier needs, and capable of leveraging the
technological opportunities of the Intelligence
Community Cloud
6. • Driving the Army-wide effort to modernize
and consolidate the Army’s Global Processing,
Exploitation and Dissemination
• Expanding the Army’s investment in Human
Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Open Source
Intelligence and multidiscipline intelligence
support to Cyber Operations
7. • Consolidating, Modernizing and Expanding the
Army’s Aerial ISR Fleet to provide greater global
responsiveness to support for Army and Joint
Commanders
• Introducing new Army Intelligence formations
to increase the national to tactical and
multidiscipline intelligence capabilities and
capacity, including 10 additional brigade sized
organizations
8. Now in the fourth year of an extensive
modernization effort, Army Intelligence is
continuing to demonstrate exceptional agility in
supporting Army operations in multiple
theaters, while also developing and rapidly on-
boarding state of the art capabilities to better
support the Army’s many emerging and urgent
needs.
9. As Legere noted in a recent address to industry, “As the
Army’s Senior Intelligence Officer, it has been my
responsibility to work with the Army, the Intelligence
Community and Congress , to ensure the Army
continues to field the best possible MI Force, with the
most responsive and adaptive expeditionary
capabilities and formations we can resource, ensuring
we have the regionally expert multi-discipline
Intelligence Force our Army requires, while introducing
advanced technologies, skill sets and formations to
improve the intelligence support we provide to our
forces across the globe. “
10. Selected in 2012 to be the Army’s Senior
Intelligence Officer, she was responsible for
the operations, readiness and modernization
of the Army’s 58,000 person Intelligence
Corps.
She served in this position from April 2012 to
March 2016, the longest serving General
Officer in this position’s history.