Russell D. Hale

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Russell D. Hale
15th Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)
In office
18 June 1981 – 29 February 1984
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byCharles W. Snodgrass
Succeeded byRichard E. Carver
Personal details
Born (1944-08-08) 8 August 1944 (age 79)
Sherman, Texas
Died6 September 2014
Arlington, VA
Political partyRepublican

Russell D. Hale (born 1944) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) from 1981 to 1984.

Early life and education[edit]

Russell D. Hale was born in Sherman, Texas on August 8, 1944.[1] He was educated at the United States Naval Academy, receiving a B.S. in engineering and economics in 1966, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving an M.S. in information science in 1969.[1]

Military career[edit]

Hale joined the United States Department of the Air Force in 1969 as an operation research analyst in the Office of the Comptroller.[1] From 1971 to 1973, he was a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Budget Review, Acquisition Strategies, and Procurement Policies).[1] From 1973 to 1975, he worked at IBM as an account executive to defense/aerospace corporations.[1] In 1975, he joined the professional staff of the United States House Committee on the Budget, national defense function.[1] He moved to the professional staff of the United States House Committee on Armed Services in 1978.[1]

On April 17, 1981, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Hale to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller).[1] He subsequently held this position until February 1984.

Business career[edit]

Hale left government service in 1984, becoming Senior Defense Advisor to Chase Manhattan and Drexel Burnham Lambert until February 1986.[2] He then joined the Computer Sciences Corporation as a Vice President, working there until July 1990.[2] From July 1990 to 1994, he was the President of Network Equipment Technology Federal, Inc., a developer and marketer of wide-area networks and related products.[2] In October 1994, he joined the Network Imaging Corporation as a Senior Vice President.[2]

Since 2007, Hale has been a Vice President at Edgesource, Inc.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Russell D. Hale To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force". American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
  2. ^ a b c d "NETWORK IMAGING CORP, Form PRE 14A, Filing Date Oct 18, 1996". secdatabase.com. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  3. ^ "Russel D. Hale". LinkedIn.
Government offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)
March 1981 – February 1984
Succeeded by