Lieutenant General Jerry Carter

Lieutenant General Melvin “Jerry” Carter is the fourth Deputy Commandant for Information (DC I) since the position was established in 2017.

Lieutenant General Carter enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1985. He Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1992 and was awarded the Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Military Occupational Specialty before becoming a Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence Officer.

Lieutenant General Carter’s principal command tours include the Commanding Officer, 2d Radio Battalion and the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. Other career highlights include service as the Intelligence Officer/Platoon Commander for Marine Corps Special Operation Command, Detachment One; J2, Naval Special Warfare Task Group, Arabian Peninsula; J2, Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command, Arabian Peninsula; and the Coalition J2, Special Operation Joint Task Force Afghanistan.

During his military career, Lieutenant General Carter served in a variety of staff positions to include the S-3A, 2d Radio Battalion, II Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force; J2 Operations, US Central Command/US Pacific Command; Branch Head, Joint Special Operations Command; S2-A, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operation Capable); G2 Plans, I Marine Expeditionary Force; J3 Interagency Branch Head, Joint Special Operations Command; Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G2), II Marine Expeditionary Force; and J2, Joint Special Operations Command.

Additional assignments include duty as the Executive Officer for the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency as well as the Executive Assistant for the Associate Director for Military Affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency. He recently served as the National Security Agency Cybersecurity Directorate’s Deputy Director for Combat Support, responsible for preventing and eliminating threats to U.S. national security systems and critical infrastructure.

From 2010 to 2011, Lieutenant General Carter served as the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Timothy T. Day Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 2016.