Michael H. Decker
Senior Executive Service, Assistant Director of Intelligence
(Biography)
 

Mr. Michael H. Decker is the Assistant Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, Marine Corps. In his present position he manages the Intelligence Divisions and provides professional intelligence management and policy support to the Director of Intelligence in the conduct of Marine Corps Intelligence activities within the Marine Corps, Defense, and National Intelligence Communities.

Mr. Decker was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and attended the Basic School and the Infantry Officers Course. He was first assigned to Company F, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines (BLT 2/6) as an infantry platoon commander, deploying to the Mediterranean Sea and participating in amphibious landings in Italy, Spain, Tunisia, and Oman. Mr. Decker later served as an NBC Defense Officer and, when BLT 2/6 landed in Beirut, Lebanon as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force, served as Assistant BLT Operations Officer. After returning to the United States, Mr. Decker served as Commanding Officer, Company G, BLT 2/6 and later as Assistant Operations Officer/Liaison Officer for the 26th Marine Amphibious Unit during amphibious exercises in Honduras.

After transferring to Henderson Hall, Mr. Decker served as the Marine Corps Security Force/Marine Security Guard Officer in the Security Branch at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, where he analyzed manpower and security policy regarding Marine guards assigned to the Department of the Navy and Department of State. Mr. Decker next served as assistant intelligence officer with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) in the Western Pacific and in Camp Pendleton as I MEF's Southwest Asia Production/Analysis Officer in the MAGTF All-source Fusion Center, where he coordinated all intelligence aspects of Marine participation in theater contingency planning and exercises.

In August 1990, Mr. Decker deployed to Saudi Arabia with the 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and assumed the position of a senior intelligence analyst for 7th MEB and later I MEF, supervising enemy order of battle analysis and coordinating political analysis and theater intelligence liaison for Marine Forces Central Command (MARCENT) during Operation Desert Storm. Mr. Decker was medically retired in 1991. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

After leaving the Marine Corps, Mr. Decker served as a Senior Systems Engineer with Delfin Systems, conducting tactical exploitation of national capabilities (TENCAP) training and exercise support worldwide as part of a national intelligence agency's support to military operations program. Mr. Decker also served at Science Applications International Corporation as Deputy Program Manager for the Long-range Information Networked Communications Services (LINCS) Program, which was sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
Mr. Decker holds an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, an M.A. in Government/National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.