On February 13, 2007, Mike McConnell became the second Director of National Intelligence, after Negroponte was appointed Deputy Secretary of State. Donald M. Kerr was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence on October 4, 2007, and sworn in on October 9, 2007. Kerr, from Virginia, was previously the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA before that. Earlier in his career, he was an Assistant Director at the FBI, in charge of their Laboratory Division from 1997 to 2001.