Major General
David W. Stallings

Major General David W. Stallings was born in Ashland, Kentucky on May 16, 1933. Following graduation from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, he began his Army career by completing the Ordnance Officer Basic Course at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryand.

Following service in Germany and Korea, he went on to complete assignments at Fort Benning, in Vietnam, at the Tank-Automotive Command, at the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel in Washington, and at Fort Carson, Colorado. He spent three years in Washington before being named Commander of Letterkenny Army Depot in 1977. During a period of downsizing, he successfully oversaw the overhaul of self-propelled howitzer production and of the Hawk air defense system for Europe.

In 1979, he took command of the Ordnance Center and School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he instituted a plan to combine the two Ordnance schools at Aberdeen Proving Ground and at Huntsville, Alabama, into a single command. He also planned for and held the first Ordnance General Officer review of the health of the Corps, which has since become an annual procedure that has been copied by other branches of the Army. Much was also done in constructing new quarters and training facilities. In addition, the Army's Chemical School returned to Fort McClellan, Alabama, from Aberdeen, as a separate entity. In his next post, as Deputy Commanding General of the Tank-Automotive Command, he set record achievements in executing a $4 billion procurement program and in improving the command's materiel management operations. As Director of Procurement and Production for the Army Materiel Command from 1983 to 1985, he did much to overhaul the Army's procurement process, thus improving overall Army-wide materiel readiness.

In his final assignment as Director of Procurement, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, he made it possible for the Army to institute the Standard Army Contracting System, the automated procedure that speeded up the Army's procurement process and contributed to materiel readiness Armywide. Major General Stallings retired in 1986, and has since continued to support the Army and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization in private industry.