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Government set to announce new top cyber spy

The new director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate will take over from Rachel Noble as the agency seeks to double in size over the next decade.

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The government's announcement on who will replace ASD director-general Rachel Noble is "imminent", according to multiple Defence sources. AAP/Mick Tsikas.

The new director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) will soon be unveiled after the cyber spy agency’s current boss, Rachel Noble, decided to finish up in the role earlier than expected.

Multiple Defence sources, who were not authorised to speak on the record, confirmed to Capital Brief that an announcement on the next director-general of the ASD is “imminent”.

Noble, whose five-year term is set to expire in December, did not seek a second term from the Albanese government and has decided to leave the agency sooner than anticipated.

The sources said the government has spent months considering who should replace Noble, in recent weeks narrowing the choice to two candidates: Abigail Bradshaw, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), and Lieutenant General Gavan Reynolds, the inaugural Chief of Defence Intelligence.