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General Dennis L. Via COMMANDING GENERAL General Dennis L. Via assumed duties as the 18th Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) August 7, 2012. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness to ensure dominant land force capability for the U.S. Warfighter and our allies. General Via’s prior assignment was as AMC’s Deputy Commanding General. He deployed to Southwest Asia in October 2011 as the Commander, AMC Responsible Reset Task Force with the mission of leading the strategic integration of the Materiel Enterprise for the Retrograde of equipment and materiel out of Iraq at the conclusion of Operation NEW DAWN. Prior to that, he served as Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, J-6, The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. A native of Martinsville, Virginia, General Via was commissioned on May 18, 1980, in the Signal Corps after graduating as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Virginia State University. He holds a Master's Degree from Boston University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (class of 1991) and the U.S. Army War College (class of 1999). General Via is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The General's command assignments include the 82nd Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 3rd Signal Brigade, III Armored Corps, Fort Hood, Texas; 5th Signal Command, U.S. Army Europe and 7th Army, Mannheim, Germany; and the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and Fort Monmouth, Fort Monmouth, N.J. His key staff assignments include Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of Staff, Allied Forces Southern Europe, Naples, Italy; Operations Officer, J-6, Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, Washington, D.C.; Division Chief, Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC), Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., and Principal Director for Operations, Defense Information Systems Agency/Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, U.S. Strategic Command, Arlington, Virginia. His awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal; the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Defense Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters; Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; Joint Service Achievement Medal; and the Army Achievement Medal. He is authorized to wear the Master Parachutist Badge, Joint Staff Identification Badge, and Army Staff Identification Badge. General Via holds the distinction of being the only Signal Corps officer in U.S. Army history to be promoted to 4-Star General. August 2015 David Fastabend, USA (Ret) David Fastabend is currently an independent consultant (Fastabend Solutions, LLC), an associate member of The Spectrum Group, and an Outside Director on the board of Riverbed Technology. In February 2015 he retired from Exelis (formerly ITT Defense) as Vice President and General Manager of Advanced Information Solutions (AIS) in the Exelis Information Systems Division. At AIS he lead a $400M business encompassing 350 programs and 250 pursuits addressing Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security intelligence and cyber requirements, military service high end professional engineering services, and DoD scientific and engineering technical services David Fastabend served as a combat arms officer in the Corps of Engineers, and commanded the U.S Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division from 2001-2003. As the Director of Concepts Development for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) from 2003-2005, he authored the Army's capstone operational concept: "The Army in Joint Operations". From 2005-2006, he served as the Deputy Director of TRADOC's Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) and developed the first "Army Concept and Capability Development Plan". He served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Operations, Multinational Forces Iraq from 2006-2007, directing the strategic level military operations of over 150,000 personnel throughout Iraq during the height of sectarian violence from June 2006 to July 2007. In this capacity he was instrumental in setting the conditions for directing the transition to surge operations in the spring of 2007. He was the advisor to General Petraeus on all matters involving Iraq multinational operations. David Fastabend finished his Army career as the Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy for Headquarters, U.S. Army from 2007-2009. In this capacity he served as the strategic advisor to the U.S. Army's senior leadership on key issues of national defense; including making recommendations for Army policy and strategic choices to the Army's Chief of Staff for later recommendation to the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of Defense, and the President. David Fastabend was commissioned into the Army Corps of Engineers of the U.S. Army following graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from West Point, a Master's Degree in Structural Dynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master of Military Art & Science from the Command and General Staff College. He also served as a Strategic Fellow with the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia. Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster is the Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center and Deputy Commanding General, Futures, US Army Training and Doctrine Command. He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984. His previous command assignments include: Commanding General, Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning; Commander, Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force Shafafiyat (Transparency) in Kabul, Afghanistan; and Commander, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command 3071 Aberdeen Boulevard Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 www.army.mil/rdecom U.S. ARMY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING COMMAND Maj. Gen. John F. Wharton Commanding General Maj. Gen. John F. Wharton serves as commanding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. RDECOM has the mission to ensure decisive overmatch for unified land operations to empower the Army, the joint warfighter and our nation. The U.S. Army commissioned Wharton as a second lieutenant fol- lowing his graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1981. His first assignment was Fort Hood, Texas, where he served as main supply platoon leader and company commander, 15th Supply and Transport Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. In 1985, he transferred to the Dragon Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and later deployed to Sinai, Egypt, with Task Force 3-502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) as part of the Multinational Force and Observers. He remained deployed with TF 2-504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 82nd Airborne Division, becoming the first commander of the Support Company, Logistical Support Unit. In 1986, Wharton assumed du- ties as an inspector general to the U.S. Army Western Command at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Following that tour, he served as battalion Enduring Freedom. He was the U.S. Army Materiel Command chief S-3 in the 25th Supply and Transport Battalion, 25th Infantry Di- of staff from November 2009 to March 2012. Wharton's most re- vision (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. From 1992 to 1994 he cent assignment was as commanding general, U.S. Army Sustain- was the Lieutenant Colonels' Assignments Officer at the U.S. Ar- ment Command and Rock Island Arsenal, and as the senior com- my's Personnel Command, Alexandria, Virginia, and then moved to mander for U.S. Army Garrison, Rock Island, Illinois. As the ASC Fort Drum, New York, to be battalion executive officer in the 210th commanding general, he led a global organization of over 65,000 Forward Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) Soldiers, civilians, and contractors, responsible for sustaining Army and later deployed to OPERATION RESTORE/UPHOLD DEMOCRACY and joint forces in support of combatant commands. as the Battalion Commander (Forward). Following the deployment, he remained at Fort Drum as chief, Division Materiel Management In addition to his degree from the United States Military Academy, Center, 10th Mountain Division Support Command from 1995 to his education includes the Quartermaster Basic and Advanced 1996. For the next two years he served as a joint Strategy Planner Courses, the Inspector General's Course, the Command and Gen- in the Logistics Directorate, J-4, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, eral Staff College, and the Naval War College. He holds a master D.C. In 1998, he took command of the 1st United States Army Sup- of science degree in national security and strategic studies. port Battalion, 507th Corps Support Group (Airborne), MFO, Sinai, Egypt. After command, he served a second tour at PERSCOM as His awards include the Distinguished Service Medal (with Oak the quartermaster branch chief. Leaf Cluster), Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak Leaf In 2001, Wharton assumed brigade command of the 55th
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