Rachel Noble was the Director-General of the

Australian Signals Directorate The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), formerly the Defence Signals Directorate, is a statutory agency of the Government of Australia responsible for signals intelligence, providing intelligence support to Australian military operations, con ...

. She was appointed to the position in February 2020 and was the first woman to hold the position.

Career

Noble was employed at the

Australian Cyber Security Centre The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the successor to the Cyber Security Operations Centre, is the Australian Government's lead agency for cyber security. The ACSC is part of the Australian Signals Directorate and is based at the Austr ...

and prior to her ASD appointment had spent 20 years working in the public service. Prior senior executive roles have included acting as Australia’s first national security CIO within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Deputy chief of the Australia-US satellite tracking facility at

Pine Gap Pine Gap is a joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately south-west of the town of Alice Springs. It is jointly operated by Australia and ...

in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

. She is also a former National Director of Intelligence and Chief Information Officer at the

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service was an Australian federal government agency responsible for managing the security and integrity of the Australian border and facilitating the movement of legitimate international travellers and ...

and Assistant secretary of governance, responsible for the overall governance and assurance framework for the Department of Defence.

References

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