Navy Rear Adm. Heidi Berg named as Fleet Cyber commander

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Sept. 5 announced that President Donald Trump has nominated Navy Rear Adm. Heidi K. Berg as Fleet Cyber Command/commander, and Tenth Fleet/commander, Navy Space Command, in Fort Meade, Md.

Berg is currently serving as deputy commander of both the Fleet Cyber Command and Tenth Fleet, Navy Space Command. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute, and Arabic at the Kalimat Institute in Cairo. She also holds a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Previously, Berg served a tour in the Navy Security Group Activity in Rota, Spain where she flew more than 1,000 hours and deployed to surface and subsurface units in support of Operations Provide Promise/Sharp Guard, and served on the Sixth Fleet in Gaeta, Italy and at Naval Security Group Menwith Hill in Harrogate, UK. In 2012, she was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan as director of the International Security Assistance Force Red Team.

U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/Navy Space Command is an operational force responsible for the Navy information network. The force of more than 13,000 billets and positions for active and reserve Sailors and civilians around the world, handling offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, space operations and signals intelligence. The fleet serves as the Navy component command to the U.S. Cyber Command, the Navy space component to U.S. Strategic Command and the Navy’s Service Cryptologic Component Commanders under the National Security Agency/Central Security Service.