Dennis Via is an executive vice president and leads company-wide corporate engagement in the Office of the CEO. He is a fellow for Defense Futures and a member of Booz Allen’s Defense Sector leadership team. Dennis is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and an expert in military readiness, information technology, cybersecurity, supply chain, and the U.S. defense industrial base enterprise.
Within our global defense business, he helps formulate the company’s future business strategy for the defense market and contributes to growth across technology innovation, warfighter advancements, readiness and training, and security cooperation. As a defense fellow, he assists senior defense, intelligence, and homeland security clients in navigating today’s evolving global threat and budgetary environments.
During his 36-year military career, Dennis commanded at all levels from lieutenant to general, including several years as commanding general and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), the largest logistics command within the Department of Defense. AMC’s mission includes research and development of weapon systems, equipment and materiel readiness, worldwide logistics support, depot and arsenal manufacturing, and global supply chain distribution. As AMC’s deputy commander, he deployed to the CENTCOM Theater to oversee the drawdown and retrograde of equipment and materiel from Iraq at the conclusion of combat operations.
Dennis previously held multiple commander, signal, and chief information officer roles, working on everything from communications infrastructure and cybersecurity to global logistics and engineering. Receiving numerous honors and awards throughout his career, Dennis is the first and only commissioned Signal Corps officer in the U.S. Army’s 246-year history to achieve the rank of four-star general.
A native of Martinsville, Virginia, Dennis was commissioned in 1980 in the Signal Corps after completing his B.A. as a distinguished military graduate from Virginia State University. He holds a master’s degree in management from Boston University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Senior Fellow, AFCEA Executive Board, and serves on the nonprofit boards of Capital Partners for Education (CPE) and The Army Historical Foundation.