Peter A. (Duke) Deluca
BG (R) United States Army
Brigadier General Duke DeLuca has run multi-billion-dollar annual construction programs internationally in Iraq and across regions including the Midwest U.S. from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, from Virginia through Maine, across Europe, in Israel and in Africa supporting foreign partner militaries, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, numerous DoD and other Federal agencies, and many municipalities and states.
He served as Commandant of the U.S. Army Engineer School running an enterprise that taught over 285 courses to all ranks from trainee through Colonel and set standards and requirements for the Army engineer forces in all three components for Doctrine, Training, Organizations Materiel, Leadership, Personnel and Facilities.
He has served as the federal member or Chair of three northeastern U.S. river basin commissions in which roles he served as representative of the President and all executive branch agencies and as a leading water quality regulator – the Delaware River Basin Commission, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River.
His final assignment in the Army was as Commanding General of the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leading a multi-billion-dollar annual civil works program from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and serving as the President of the Mississippi River Commission.
BG, USA, Ret. DeLuca is a Mechanical Engineer and Eurasian Foreign Area officer, a graduate of the Defense Language Institute, and has served fellowships at Columbia University, the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies, and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and Finance. He earned a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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BG, USA, Ret. DeLuca is a senior management consultant in private commercial and federal markets with a broad range of clients. He served 32 years in the Army with experience at all levels of command from platoon to combatant command and commanded an engineer battalion and a multi-service engineer brigade in combat and commanded two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Divisions. He supervised the execution of over half of the U.S. Army BRAC 2005 program and delivered a $21 Billion dollar total construction program on time and on budget in 2.5 years on unprecedented aggressive schedules to meet legal requirements. He redesigned the organization to deliver a workload surge most efficiently, pioneering new construction management techniques needed to meet tight deadlines. He oversaw the privatization of Army housing under the Regional Communities Initiative and the privatization of Army lodging. He forged relationships critical to the safe development of unconventional oil and gas production as Chairman and Federal Commissioner on several river basin commissions and developed new partnering techniques to deliver huge construction programs, and to deliver large public-private partnership opportunities in water resources stewardship and development as President of the Mississippi River Commission. He currently is a senior management consultant working in the architecture, engineering and construction, logistics, defense management, federal government and engineering technical fields. He is a Senior Advisor with AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc. a Senior Advisor with The Roosevelt Group and an Adjunct Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He serves on three non-profit boards of directors and on one private commercial company board.
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Congressional authorizations and appropriations, large architectural/engineering and construction programs and project management, defense resource management, reform, and institution building, force management, leader development, the federal budget process, military construction, civil works construction and planning, water resources development, eco-system restoration and environmental remediation, clean water act regulation, risk management, organizational change management, adaptive planning, strategic planning and advocacy, financial management within tight Profit & Loss bands, contracting oversight, public and crisis communications, and client/partner/stakeholder relations at international, federal, state, local, and tribal levels. He serves on three non-profit boards of directors - for the Army Engineer Association, the Federal Association for Insurance Reform Foundation, and Clean PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) and one private commercial board of directors. He continues to be affiliated with the Society of American Military Engineers.