Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege Jr. is Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va. As Director, he leads a worldwide organization of more than 8,200 military and civilian personnel. This organization engineers, develops, acquires, and provides integrated command, control and information networks to serve the needs of the President, Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the combatant commanders, and other Department of Defense components under all conditions from peace through war. He is also responsible for operating the most complex and far-reaching military information networks in the world.

General Raduege entered the Air Force in 1970 through the Air Force ROTC program at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He has worked his entire career in the areas of C4, space and information operations serving in command, operations, maintenance, engineering, plans, budgeting and readiness positions. The general also has served more than 13 years in joint duty assignments. Prior to assuming his current position, General Raduege directed command control systems for Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., and communications and information at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB. He also served as the Chief Information Officer for all three commands.

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ASSIGNMENTS

1. March 1970 - October 1970, student, basic communications-electronics course, Keesler AFB, Miss.
2. October 1970 - July 1973, chief of maintenance, 2192nd Communications Squadron, Loring AFB, Maine
3. July 1973 - September 1976, logistics plans officer, later, Chief, Quality Control Branch, later, maintenance control officer, 2130th Communications Group, Royal Air Force Croughton, England
4. September 1976 - October 1977, Air Staff Training Program, Directorate for Command, Control and Communications, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
5. October 1977 - October 1978, student, Communications Systems Staff Officer Course, and graduate student, telecommunications management, Keesler AFB, Miss.
6. October 1978 - June 1980, tactical communications programs officer, later, executive officer to the Commander, Tactical Communications Area, Langley AFB, Va.
7. June 1980 - June 1981, Commander, Turkish-U.S. Logistics Group, Detachment 75, Pirinclik Installation, Diyarbakir, Turkey
8. June 1981 - January 1984, Chief, Readiness Division, Air Force Communications Command, Scott AFB, Ill.
9. January 1984 - July 1984, student, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.
10. July 1984 - August 1988, Chief, Command, Control and Communications Engineering Division, NORAD and Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo. August 1988 - July 1989, student, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
11. July 1989 - July 1992, Chief, Strategic Warning Information Systems, later, Chief, Satellite Communications Division, later, Executive Assistant to the Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.
12. July 1992 - July 1993, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, later, Deputy Director, Communications-Computer Systems, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va.
13. July 1993 - July 1995, Commander, Air Force C4 Agency, Scott AFB, Ill.
14. July 1995 - September 1998, Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, U.S. Central Command, MacDill AFB, Fla.
15. September 1998 - June 2000, Director of Command Control Systems, Headquarters NORAD and U.S. Space Command, and Director of Communications and Information, Headquarters AFSPC, Peterson AFB, Colo.
16. June 2000 - March 2003, Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Manager, National Communications System, Arlington, Va.
17. March 2003 - present, Director, DISA, Arlington, Va.

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(Current as of September 2003)