Russell D. Hale | |
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15th Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) | |
In office 18 June 1981 – 29 February 1984 | |
President | Ronald Reagan |
Preceded by | Charles W. Snodgrass |
Succeeded by | Richard E. Carver |
Personal details | |
Born | Sherman, Texas | 8 August 1944
Died | 6 September 2014 Arlington, VA |
Political party | Republican |
Russell D. Hale (born 1944) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) from 1981 to 1984.
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]
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.
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]