The White House is likely to nominate Malcolm O’Neill, a former director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), which later became the Missile Defense Agency, as assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology), according to sources.
O’Neill, a retired Army lieutenant general, is a consultant and Chairman of the Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies.
From 2000 until his retirement in 2006, O’Neill was vice president and chief technical officer of Lockheed Martin [LMT], where he also had served as vice president, Mission Success and Operations, in the Space and Strategic Missiles Sector.
O’Neill served 34 years in the Army, completing a combat arms tour as an infantryman. He was wounded twice in Vietnam, later becoming a uniformed acquisition specialist.
With a Ph.D. in Physics from Rice University in Houston, O’Neill was a program manager for Defense Advanced Projects Agency, NATO, the Army, and the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. He commanded the Army Laboratory Command and served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition.
In his last military assignment, from 1993 to 1996 O’Neill was BMDO director. O’Neill is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; he is also a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.