Lieutenant General David D. Halverson, U.S. Army

Lieutenant General David D. Halverson

U.S. Army, Retired 

Inducted 2024

David D. Halverson was born on August 13, 1957, in Babbitt, Minnesota. He graduated from the US Military Academy in 1979, and was commissioned in the Field Artillery. Halverson's first few duty assignments were within the 1^-82 FA, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, where he served as a Battalion Reconnaissance Officer, Battery Fire Direction, Executive Officer and Battalion Adjutant. He was selected to command A Battery, 6-29 FA, 8th Infantry Division. He then attended the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. After deployment in support of OPERATION JUST CAUSE, he was assigned to the 2-11 Field Artillery in Hawaii. Halverson served his Battalion Command at the 2-82 FA, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood. After graduation from War College and a year at the Pentagon, Halverson commanded 2nd ID DivArty in Korea. His staff positions focused on program development, testing, concept and requirement development, strategic planning, cost-benefit and risk analysis, with assignments as the Senior Military Analyst in the Joint Wargaming and Policy Division of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, joint requirements and Army budget development in positions such as the Commander in Chief Team Chief in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Program, Analysis, and Evaluation Directorate. While serving as the  Command J3, Chief of Plans, he planned, coordinated, and executed war plans for OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM and OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM after 9-11. He deployed as the Deputy Commanding General (Support) for the 4th Infantry Division for OIF 5/7. After the deployment, he assumed duties on the Army Staff, as the Director of Operations, Readiness, and Mobilization, G-3 and then became the Director of Force Development, G-8, where he developed the RDT&E investment, modernization and equipping programs for the Army totaling $200B across the POM. He transformed the training and modernization as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill, where the Air Defense and Field Artillery merged under one post. He served as the Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command where the newest doctrine and concepts were developed, along with leader development, training and learning models programs were revamped. His last active duty assignment was the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, where he transformed the business approach to the global installation management and programmed the $19B annual energy, general services, force protection, construction and quality of life programs for over 154 installations in the Total Army. LTG Halverson, retired on June 30, 2016 from the US Army after over 37 years of service. Following retirement, he became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cypress International Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia. He has continued to serve on the Board of Directors for the Armed Services YMCA, Leadership Council for the Legal Services Corporation, and a Board Member of the Youth Impact Program, the West Point Athletics Association, the American Public University System, and the Gen Raymond T. Odierno Foundation. He is on the Senior Advisory Group for the Commanding General at Fort Sill. He served as the President, then Chairman of the US Field Artillery Association. Under his leadership the Association revamped all business systems so they could be upgraded for current technology and enhanced user experience, created the US Field Artillery Hall of Fame, Fires Symposium, King of Battle Podcast and returned the FA Journal to a print magazine. All of these programs have resulted in record setting growth for the Association and its ability to provide service to the branch.