Aaron Tooke

Mr. Tooke is the Deputy Commandant for Information- Intelligence Division’s Intelligence Mission Manager and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Enterprise. As the USMC Intelligence Mission Manager, he advises the DCI, the DIRINT, and the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) on all aspects of strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence, including current and future programs. As the Chief AI Officer for the MCISRE, he leads the Marine Corps’ AI adoption and data flows initiatives within the intelligence warfighting function. Mr. Tooke has served in the Intelligence Community for 25 years and has managed and led at the division and office levels in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency influencing overhead collections, cross- community coordination and integration, and most recently GEOINT foundation productions by providing operational advantage to the USN submarine forces.

Mr. Tooke recently retired as a Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves where he last served as the Reserve Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence (G2) to the Commanding General Marine Forces Pacific, Camp Smith, HI. Mr. Tooke bridges national level intelligence capabilities to Marine Corps warfighting needs and he connects Headquarters Marine Corps to INDOPACOM through his strong personal relationships across the MARFORPAC Staff.

Mr. Tooke joined the Marine Corps in 1994 and transitioned to the Reserves in 2004. He is an Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veteran where he served as the Senior Intelligence Watch Officer with 2 nd Intelligence Battalion leading the MEF’s Tactical Fusion Center in Camp Blue Diamond, Ramadi, IZ. He has applied his Intelligence Community and Marine Corps experience by serving in support of the Office Undersecretary Defense Intelligence (OUSDI) as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Liaison Officer to the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Task Force (ISR-TF) where he advised and aligned over $200M in NGA technical initiatives supporting Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (second award), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

Mr. Tooke earned his undergraduate in Business Administration at the University of Texas, his master’s in business administration at Johns Hopkins University, and a professional graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning from the University of Texas. He has completed Marine Corps Command & Staff and the U.S Air Force Air War College. Mr. Tooke is married and has two children.