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, reported on the progress of the mandated restructuring of the Sentinel nuclear missile program as part of the acquisition reforms occurring in the Defense Department.
“The restructure will be complete in 2026 to include regaining our Milestone B certification,” General White said in his first interview since taking the newly created role. The general stated that the milestone would “probably” be achieved in the “back half of the year.”
He stated that in accelerating the timeline, “We certainly have not lowered the bar, and we certainly have not taken on any risk by doing this.”
Regarding the potential extension of the Minuteman fleet program, General White stated, “I don’t know if I’d rate it all right now, but I wouldn’t call it likely by any stretch of the imagination. We understand that we cannot have a gap in capability.”
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