NSA official is expected pick for Marines information job, as Corps handles backlog of leadership...

President Joe Biden is expected to pick a recently installed National Security Agency official to be the U.S. Marine Corps’ next deputy commandant for information, according to two people familiar with the decision.

Maj. Gen. Melvin “Jerry” Carter will be responsible for developing and overseeing all of the service’s policies and strategies about how to use information to carry out its doctrine.

Carter is currently the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate’s deputy director for combat support. In that role he is responsible for safeguarding sensitive information on U.S. national security systems and wiping out threats from foreign hackers.