Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose, Ret.
Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Maj. Gen. Dale W. Meyerrose is Director of Command Control Systems, Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command, and Director of Architectures and Integration, Headquarters U.S. Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. He also serves as the Chief Information Officer for both commands. General Meyerrose ensures the Commander of NORAD has the command and control systems to safeguard the air sovereignty of North America. For U.S. Northern Command, he creates architectures and integrated solutions to support the command's mission to deter, prevent and defeat threats to the United States. He facilitates communications and information sharing for military assistance to civil authorities for incident response responsibilities assigned to Northern Command.

Born in Indianapolis, Ind., General Meyerrose entered the Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy. His career highlights include service as a director in three Air Force major air commands and three unified combatant commands, a Joint Task Force Director of Communications, and a commander of two major Air Force communications units. The general wears the master communications badge and is a master parachutist.

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