Donald MacLean Kerr

Dr. Kerr, Jr. is the current Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
He was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on Thursday, October 4, 2007.
He most recently was the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
He was sworn into that position July 2005 by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.
Prior to his position at the NRO, he was Deputy Director of Science and Technology at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2001 to 2005.
He was also Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Kerr was nominated to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence by President George W.
Bush on Wednesday, July 11, 2007.
According to Congressional Quarterly, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 by a vote of 12-3, reported out the nomination of Kerr to serve as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
Dr. Kerr was educated at Cornell University, receiving his BSEE in 1963, MS in Microwave Electronics in 1964, and PhD in plasma physics in 1966 for Electronic Properties of the Penning Discharge Plasma.