Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett earned her commission through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). As an admiral, Barrett served as director of current operations at U.S. Cyber Command, and as the Navy cyber security division director and deputy chief information officer on the CNO staff in 2017. She led the Navy’s strategic development and execution of digital and cyber security efforts, enterprise information technology improvements and cloud policy and governance for 700,000 personnel across a global network. An innovator, she implemented visionary digital transformation to modernize with unprecedented speed, significantly improving Navy information warfare capabilities. She was involved in many military operations: deployments to Iraq, aircraft carrier-supporting combat operations in Afghanistan, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Last Updated: 29 March 2023