Deputy Director of Operations (Acting)
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Special Agent Gregory A. Scovel, Jr. was appointed the acting Deputy Director of Operations, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), in April 2024. He serves as the agency’s Chief Operations Officer with responsibility for six directorates: Atlantic Operations, Global Operations, Pacific Operations, National Security, Criminal Investigations, and Operational Technology and Cyber Innovation. Tasked with overseeing all NCIS investigations and operations, Mr. Scovel's leadership is instrumental in the ongoing efforts to prevent terrorism, safeguard technology and classified information, and mitigate crime, thus ensuring warfighter readiness in the Department of the Navy (DON).
He served formerly as the Executive Assistant Director (EAD) of the NCIS National Security Directorate (NSD) (2021-2024). He provided leadership, strategic direction, and management for global counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations and operations, including those involving espionage, terrorism, compromise, technology transfer, cyber operations, force protection activities, insider threat programs, and threats to research, development, and acquisition programs. He was previously the NSD Assistant Director (2019-2020).
Mr. Scovel was formerly the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Norfolk Field Office (2020-2021), and was responsible for identifying, disrupting, and defeating threats posed by foreign intelligence entities and criminal actors targeting the DON in Hampton Roads. He served previously as the DON Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority (DONCICA) (2018-2019) and Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Operations (2018), providing leadership for NCIS counterintelligence operations programs, as well as coordination and de-confliction of all DON counterintelligence activity. He was recalled to active duty in 2018 and served as the forward Joint Force Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Staff Element (J-2X), Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), Baghdad, Iraq. While in theater, he coordinated all OIR conventional forces’ CI and HUMINT activity.
Mr. Scovel joined NCIS in 2007. His prior assignments include Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Office of Special Projects; Supervisory Special Agent, Office of Special Projects; NCIS Resident Agent, U.S. Embassy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010-2013); NCIS Headquarters National Security Operations Division, (2009-2010); and the NCIS Carolinas Field Office, Camp Lejeune, NC (2007-2009). Prior to joining NCIS, he served for nine years as a U.S. Naval Aviator (1998-2007). During this period, he deployed in support of Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has completed over 1,000 hours as pilot-in-command and over 100 carrier-arrested landings in the C-2A Greyhound (COD). He is a retired Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer.
Mr. Scovel is a graduate of James Madison University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs with a minor in Economics. He is also a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he earned a Master of Business Administration degree.
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