John A. Gordon

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John A. Gordon
1946-
General John A. Gordon
Place of birth	Jefferson City, Missouri
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Air Force
Years of service	1968-2000
Rank	General
Commands held	90th Strategic Missile Wing
Awards	Legion of Merit
Other work	Homeland Security Advisor Board member, EDO Corporation Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism Board of Trustees, Analytic Services, Inc.

General John Alexander Gordon (born August 22, 1946, in Jefferson City, Missouri^[1]) was deputy director of central intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. He served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004.^[2]

Gordon entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1968. His early assignments were in research, development and acquisition where he was involved in improving the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and in developing and acquiring the Peacekeeper ICBM. He was a long-range planner at Strategic Air Command and served with the U.S. State Department in politico-military affairs. Later, he commanded the 90th Strategic Missile Wing, the only Peacekeeper ICBM unit. He has served with the National Security Council in the areas of defense and arms control, including the oversight and completion of the START II negotiations. He then became a senior member of the secretary of defense's staff and later, the director of operations, Air Force Space Command, responsible for overseeing and developing policy and guidance for the command's operational missions. He also has served as special assistant to the Air Force chief of staff for long-range planning, where he was responsible for restarting and integrating a long-range planning process into the Air Force. Prior to assuming the deputy director position, he was associate director of central intelligence for military support, Central Intelligence Agency. He retired from the Air Force on August 1, 2000.

1 Post military career
2 Education
3 Assignments
4 Major awards and decorations
5 Effective dates of promotion
6 References

[edit] Post military career

Following his Air Force retirement, Gordon was chosen as the first administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and also Under Secretary of Energy, responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, a position he filled from June 2000 to June 2002.^[3] He next served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, then assumed duties as Homeland Security Advisor from June 2003 to June 2004.^[2] On September 16, 2004, he was inducted into the Naval Postgraduate School Hall of Fame.^[4] Gordon joined the board of EDO Corporation in early 2007,^[5] and also serves on the Board of Trustees of Analytic Services, Inc.^[3]

[edit] Education

1968 Bachelor of science degree with honors in physics, University of Missouri–Columbia
1970 Master of science degree, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
1972 Master of arts degree in business administration, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
1975 Squadron Officer School, by correspondence
1978 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
1986 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama

[edit] Assignments

July 1968 - June 1970, graduate student, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
June 1970 - June 1974, physicist, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
June 1974 - April 1976, research associate, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 1976 - February 1979, long-range planner, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
February 1979 - August 1980, staff officer, research and development, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
August 1980 - May 1982, executive assistant to the undersecretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
May 1982 - January 1983, deputy director, Office of Policy Analysis, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
January 1983 - July 1985, office director for strategic nuclear policy, and director for defense and arms control matters, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
July 1985 - July 1986, student, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
July 1986 - June 1987, assistant deputy commander for maintenance, 44th Strategic Missile Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota
June 1987 - May 1989, vice commander, then commander, 90th Strategic Missile Wing, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
May 1989 - January 1993, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for defense policy and arms control, National Security Council, Washington, D.C.
January 1993 - June 1994, deputy undersecretary of defense and chief of staff for policy, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
June 1994 - September 1995, director of operations, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
September 1995 - September 1996, special assistant to the chief of staff for long-range planning, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
September 1996 - October 1997, associate director of central intelligence for military support, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.
October 1997 - 2000, deputy director of central intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.