Gen. Dennis L. Via
Gen. Dennis L. Via
Dennis Via retired from the U.S. Army as a 4-Star General and is currently an Executive Vice President and Defense Fellow with Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia, where he is a member of the Global Defense Group. He leads multi-year market-driven strategies, risk assessment and mitigation, and the Security Cooperation business for the firm. He serves as Chair of Global Ethics and Compliance. In his final assignment with the Army, he led the largest global logistics enterprise in the U.S. Army and Department of Defense (DoD), comprising 120,000 military and civilian employees in 38 countries and 41 states, with an annual budget of $50 Billion.
As the commander of Army Materiel Command (AMC), he was directly responsible for all Logistics, Information Technology, Research and Development, Contracting, Foreign International Military Sales, and Industrial Base manufacturing and depot operations for the US Army. From 2004 to 2011, he held multiple senior executive positions across the DoD in the areas of C4, IT, network operations, cyber security, and global supply chain, including Director, J6 on The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Pentagon, where he was a direct report to the Chairman for all policies, plans, and programs for DoD communications, information systems, and cyber security.
General Via served 12 years as a general officer and is the first commissioned Signal Corps Officer in U.S. Army’s 244-year history to achieve the rank of 4-Star General. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Association of the United States Army, AFCEA, and an Independent Director on the Milliken Board. He is married to the former Linda A. Brown of Warsaw, Va. They have two adult sons.