MajGen Melvin G. Carter USMC
Deputy Director for Combat Support
Cybersecurity Directorate, NSA
MajGen Melvin G. Carter (Jerry) is the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Cybersecurity Directorate’s Deputy Director for Combat Support charged with preventing and eradicating threats to U.S. National Security Systems and critical infrastructure.
A native of York, Pa, MajGen Carter enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1985. Commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1992, he was awarded the Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Military Occupational Specialty before becoming a Marine Air Ground Task Force Intelligence Officer.
During his military career, MajGen 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, CENTCOM/PACOM Branch Head, Joint Special Operations Command, S2-A, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operation Capable), G-2 Plans, I Marine Expeditionary Force, J3 Interagency Branch Head, Joint Special Operations Command, AC/S G2, II Marine Expeditionary Force, J2, Joint Special Operations Command.
Additional assignments include duty as the Executive Officer for the Director, the Defense Intelligence Agency as well as the Executive Assistant for the Associate Director for Military Affairs, the Central Intelligence Agency.
MajGen 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.
From 2010 to 2011, MajGen 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.
MajGen Carter is married to the former Angela M. Clagette, FNP. Angie and Jerry have two beautiful daughters, Briana and Erin.