Melvin Heritage

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Melvin Heritage was appointed as Assistant Deputy Director and Senior Acquisition Executive, Office of the Deputy United States Director of National Intelligence for Management on Oct. 31, 2005.

Mr. Heritage will exercise primary oversight of Intelligence Community system development. He was appointed a member of the Senior Intelligence Service and named Intelligence Community Senior Acquisition Executive in 2001. Prior to that, he worked in industry for several years in support of the Intelligence Community. He retired in 1999 from the U.S. Army after serving 30 years as a Military Intelligence officer. While in the Army Mr. Heritage worked primarily as an acquisition professional in intelligence system development. Following several operational assignments in intelligence units, his subsequent acquisition assignments included tours of duty as an engineering team chief, operational tester, system evaluator, system coordinator on the Army Staff, Product Manager Forward Sensor Interface and Control Module, and Project Manager Signals Warfare, concluding his service as Director of the Army Space Program Office. Mr. Heritage graduated from Kent State University with a B.A. (cum laude) in Mathematics and from Ohio State University with an M.S. in Computer Science. Additionally, he is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College and the Army War College.