US Air Force general
Major General Trudy H. Clark, USAF (retired) is a former Deputy Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Fort Belvoir, Virginia in the United States.
Military career.
Clark received her commission in 1973 as a distinguished graduate of Officer Training School. From her commissioning until 1984, she served as chief of communications branches at various Air Force bases in the United States and in Turkey and South Korea. In July 1984, she was assigned as commander of the 1880th Information Systems Squadron at the Tonopah Test Range, Nev. She then completed Air Command and Staff College before taking her assignment as chief of Tactical Command and Control Communication Systems, and later executive officer for the Deputy Director of Programs and Evaluation at U.S. Air Force Headquarters, Washington, D.C., in 1989. While in Washington, she was assigned as commander of the Staff Support Unit, and presidential communications officer in the White House Communications Agency. In 1992, she left Washington to attend Armed Forces Staff College and the Air War College.
After completing the Air War College, she was assigned to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where she served as commander of the 60th Communications Group, chief of the Communications Division and commander of the 615th Air Mobility Communications Squadron. In 1995, Clark was named commander of the 17th Support Group, Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, before returning to Washington, D.C., as executive officer to the Air Force Chief of Staff. In 1997, she was named commandant of the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She served there for two years before being named director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems at U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Prior to assuming her current duties, Clark was the deputy chief information officer (CIO), Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. There, she assisted the CIO in leading the Air Force in creating and enforcing information technology standards, in promoting and shaping effective strategic and operational Information Technology (IT) planning processes, and in acquiring IT systems. The general worked with other Air Force leaders to ensure that IT processes were efficient and effective in meeting the needs of the Air Force.
Clark was promoted to major general on March 1, 2003. Major General Clark retired from the USAF on December 1, 2006.
1972 Bachelor of arts degree in sociology, with honors, University of Maryland where she became a member of Pi Beta Phi
1980 Distinguished graduate, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
1987 Master of science degree in guidance and counseling, Troy State University, Montgomery, Alabama
1987 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
1992 Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia
1993 Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
2001 Senior Information Warfare Applications Course, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
2002 National Security Leadership Course, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
2003 National Security Decision-Making Seminar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
2004 U.S. - Russia Executive Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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