Ray Letteer
Director, Information Assurance Division within the Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (C4) Department, Headquarters Marine Corps
Ray Letteer serves as the Senior Information Assurance Official for the Marine Corps as required by the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA). Responsible for the overall creation, promulgation, and execution of the Marine Corps Information Assurance Program (MCIAP). Serves as the supervisor for the Information Assurance (IA) Division and as the Designated Approval Authority (DAA) for the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), managing the $10M IA budget in the Command, Control, Communications, & Computer (C4) department. Requirements include working IA programs and related security projects of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO), as well as the investigative and forensic standards of the Department of Justice. It also includes coordinating and approving law enforcement and counter-intelligence cybercrime investigation access to Marine Corps systems.
Mr. Letteer establishes and oversees all Marine Corps base-line security policies, to include firewall settings, wireless security standards, forensic and incident handling methodologies, cyber-investigations, system security architecture, and certification & accreditation processes. He is also co-chair the Department of the Navy (DoN) Information Assurance Workforce Working Group (IAWWG), and the Marine Corps voting representative to the DoD IA Panel (IAP), IA Steering Group (IASG), IA Senior Leaders (IASL), Enterprise Security Solutions Group (ESSG), DoD IA Security Accreditation Working Group (DSAWG), and the Committee for National Security Systems (CNSS).