The Leading Edge Presents: Rear Admiral Rebecca Ore of the U.S. Coast Guard

Description

Join Advanced Academic Program for a discussion with Rear Admiral Rebecca Ore on leadership and her role as assistant commandant for intelligence.

RDML Ore assumed the duties of assistant commandant for intelligence (CG-2) in August 2022. She leads over 1,100 intelligence professionals who conduct collection activities, analysis, production, geospatial intelligence, counterintelligence, cryptology, and associated information technology and security functions.

In her previous assignment as commanding officer and captain of the port at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles–Long Beach, she facilitated regional partnerships and provided strategic direction for a team of 550 active duty, reserve, and civilian personnel and a 1,200-member volunteer auxiliary workforce. She was responsible for safeguarding the marine transportation system that flows through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Together, these two are the largest container ports in the U.S. and ninth in the world, and they move over $1.3 billion of goods per day and receive 40% of cargo entering the country. As the federal on-scene coordinator for the pipeline 00547 response in October 2021, she also led a team of 1,800 personnel to mitigate oil impacting northern Mexico and the counties of Orange and San Diego, California.

RDML Ore holds a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a Master of Public Administration degree from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a National Security Affairs Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow.