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Rear
Admiral (retired) Rosanne “Rose” LeVitre was the first woman
intelligence specialist selected for flag rank in the United States
Navy. She was commissioned an Ensign in May 1973 on completion of
Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS), Newport, R.I.
After 31 years of active service, she retired from active
duty in February 2005.
Now
in the civilian sector, Rose LeVitre works for General Dynamics
Advanced Information Systems, and is the Director for Strategic
Planning. She serves on numerous boards and committees, to include
the Intelligence and Security Alliance (INSA), the National Military
Intelligence Association, the ASIS Military Liaison Committee and
the corporate board of a small commercial security software company.
The
majority of Rose LeVitre’s military assignments were at
operational activities in the Asia-Pacific region. She has
considerable experience in the interagency intelligence arena. Among
her early tours of duty (1976-77) was an assignment to the Imperial
Iranian Training Program during the introduction of women into that
country’s Navy.
Rear
Admiral (ret) LeVitre entered the intelligence specialty field in
1978. She served in numerous fleet operational assignments. From
1982 until 1991, she directly supported multi-platform Navy
operations in the Pacific, with specific experience in air, surface
and subsurface surveillance and reconnaissance.
Rose
LeVitre’s initial exposure to interagency intelligence occurred in
1989, when she was assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard in Alameda,
California. Her task was to establish the intelligence department
for the newly established Commander, Joint Interagency Task
Force-West, a command charged with providing DOD military support to
interagency counter-narcotics interdiction.
During
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991), Rear Admiral
(ret) LeVitre was detailed to the U.S. Central Command Air Forces
Joint Force Air Component Command (JFACC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
After the war, she was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS),
Current Operations Directorate (J3).
Among her duties was that of JCS representative to a National
Security Council. She
later served at two joint intelligence centers (JICs), one of which
she commanded. After her command tour, she became the Director for
Intelligence (J2), U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA.
On
selection to flag rank, Rear Admiral (ret) LeVitre assumed the
position as Director for Intelligence (J2), U.S. Pacific Command,
Honolulu, Hawaii. From 2000 to late 2003, she oversaw intelligence
operations at a time of increased tensions, from the EP-3 aircraft
incident with China, to the Global War on Terrorism, and crises
involving India-Pakistan and Korea. She conceived of and oversaw
implementation of an expanded information sharing architecture,
involving traditional allied partners, non-traditional alliances and
non-DOD entities to include the FBI, state and local authorities.
In
2004, Rear Admiral (ret) LeVitre became the first Director, Navy
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), FORCEnet, Navy
Staff, Washington D.C. In this capacity she was the lead resource
sponsor and capabilities integrator for ISR, working across the Navy
staff and the service systems acquisition commands.
Rose
LeVitre holds a BA in history and education from the University of
Washington. She has two Masters of Arts degrees in national security
affairs, one from Georgetown University and the other from the Naval
War College. She was a 2004 national security fellow at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Rear
Admiral (ret) LeVitre resides with her husband, Lars Hanson, a
retired Navy submarine officer, in Vienna, Virginia.
They have two grown children.
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