General Dale White, USAF
Director, Critical Major Weapon Systems
Dale R. White is a graduate of Dallas Baptist University and was commissioned into the Air Force through ROTC at Texas Christian University. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He availed himself of many academic opportunities in the military.
White served as Space Flight Mission Designer and then Manager of the Space Test Program Office at Kirtland AFB. He then served as program manager at the Maui High Performance Computing Center at the Air Force Research Laboratory, then as deputy chief of the Advanced Programs Branch of the Air Intelligence Agency at Lackland AFB. He became the Acquisition Assignments Officer at Randolph AFB, then served as Executive Officer to the Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition at Air Force Headquarters in the Pentagon. He became Executive Officer to the Commander of AFMC, Air Force Materiel Command at Wright Patterson AFB. He then returned to the Pentagon before serving at Wright-Patt as Program Executive Officer for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Special Operations Forces, and then for Fighters and Advanced Aircraft.
General White served as Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics before his current role as Director, Critical Major Weapon Systems in December 2025.
In the News…
Air Force General Dale White, Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager of the Critical Major Weapon Systems at the Pentagon, discussed the procurement of the first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones at an annual defense conference last month. The service branch has requested $1 billion to initiate procurement in fiscal 2027, and General White said that an increase in production goals for the program is set to be finalized by the end of fall 2026.
“We have a production number that we’re marching towards. How do you scale that, or do you start looking closer at Increment 2?” General White said, referring to the follow-on platform for the program. “How much do you want to ramp up and scale Increment 1 above the baseline, if we do at all?”
The CCA program is part of the USAF Next General Air Dominance program, and aims to rapidly deploy large numbers of drones that partner with fifth or sixth-generation manned fighter aircraft.
