Matt Rau Email & Phone Number

Pma-263 Nas Patuxent River Md

Project Lead for AI-enabled payloads in the small UAS Payloads Integrated Product Team

United States

Northern Virginia

Richmond, Virginia, United States

United States

Quantico, Virginia, United States

Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration, Command Element – Intelligence DivisionA career spanning three decades culminated in managing the Service’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability portfolio, setting the conditions for the most significant intelligence modernization effort the Marine Corps has undertaken in several decades. • Employed rigorous operations analysis and collaboration in planning, programming, budgeting, and execution resulting in portfolio growth of over $500 million to $1.8 billion• Led a highly disciplined, professional division widely respected for its analytical rigor and solid record of achievement across a broad set of projects, under a demanding tempo, and with numerous partnerships. • In addition to ISR, the portfolio included the exciting field of artificial intelligence with an Innovation Branch for implementing automation and digital augmentation across all the warfighting functions.• Published a weekly report to inform peers and senior officials, enabling elements of the enterprise to innovate independently toward shared goals, accelerating modernization.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Led more than 1,000 personnel in a major component of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters and hub of state-of-the-art intelligence analysis and operations. • Raised the command to a new level of teamwork and feeling of community during a major reorganization, reflected in improved 360-degree climate surveys, higher quality of work, and greater capacity for tasks during heightened regional tensions.• Designated the J-2 for a theater-level exercise and led the Joint Intelligence Operations Center and three dispersed Joint Reserve Intelligence Detachments in another three with renewed urgency in readiness for potential conflict. • Established a program for highly skilled specialists to use latent talents and collaborate outside their assigned teams, resulting in a more inclusive and innovative workforce.

Okinawa, Japan

Senior staff officer for corps-level command—Warfighter in the Pacific—responsible for the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise in the Western Pacific with personnel and activities ashore and afloat from Japan to New Zealand to Thailand. • Built a highly effective G-2 team of young Marines prepared to brief complex issues at the general officer level and become the next generation of leaders and senior analysts. • Established a leading role for III MEF G-2 in the Western Pacific with over 30 intelligence agencies, units, and allies, capitalizing on overlooked joint opportunities for integration and developing new sources of intelligence information.• Supported the fusion of target intelligence, collection management, and fires sections to increase III MEF’s responsiveness and lethality against near-peer adversaries.• Hands-on, proactive teambuilding with subordinate, adjacent, and external organizations. • Focus on development of young Marines and junior officers in the intelligence profession.

Okinawa, Japan

Senior intelligence officer for the only forward-deployed US Marine Division: 'Putting power in the pivot.'Principal advisor to the Commanding General on all aspects of intelligence and intelligence support--all-source intelligence, signals intelligence, counterintelligence/human intelligence, meteorology & oceanography, geospatial intelligence, and special intelligence communications.• Planning and training of the Ground Combat Element in the Western Pacific. • Exercising intelligence operations in Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines.• Designed a Combat Intelligence Center to optimize integration of up to six allied partners, increasing opportunities for foreign engagement and greater regional insights.• Hosted quarterly intelligence exchanges with professionals from more than two dozen units operating remotely in the East China Sea to increase interagency and joint cooperation and sources of intelligence.• Established foreign area officer discussion panels to provide intelligence analysts better comprehension of regional dynamics.

Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, United States

Deployed the signals intelligence and electronic warfare battalion in combat in Afghanistan while also generating detachments for worldwide employment.• Cultivated an environment of innovation that generated such effective business rules, tactics, techniques, and procedures that other agencies and units adopted them.• Combined leadership skills and technical acumen into engaged participation with colleagues and subordinates, improving workforce’s peer-to-peer collaboration. • Informed and engaged family members in a sense of community and shared purpose to support the organization’s mission beyond the field and office.

Master'S, Defense & Strategic Studies

Master Of Arts (Deakin University), Military Strategic Studies

Foreign Fellow at Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies

Joint Pme Ii Completion, Joint Specialty Officer

Joint Professional Military Education Level II

Professional Military Education, Career-Level School, Command & Control, Magtf Operations, Warfighting, Information Management

Career-level school granting a free military occupational specialty (FMOS) of 8055 (Information Management Officer)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Linguistics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biblical Studies