Profile
Hon. Robert Hale is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Senior Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he provides international consulting on financial management issues. Most recently, Hale served as Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer at the Department of Defense, where he managed a $600 billion budget in wartime and oversaw efforts by the Department to minimize the problems caused by the 2013 sequestration and government shutdown. Previously, Hale also served as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller), managing the Department’s budgets and spearheading efforts to create a test-based certification program. Hale served as a Commissioner on the National Commission on the Future of the Army and is a past member of the Defense Business Board. Hale spent 12 years as head of the defense group at the Congressional Budget Office.Sessions