Ltg oreilly biography
O'Reilly was born in San Jose, California, and raised as an Army brat, which included time spent in Kansas and Texas....
Lt.
As chief executive of Washington’s politically charged and technologically taxing missile defense program, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly has the daunting task of harmonizing often conflicting operational, budgetary and diplomatic demands for defending the United States, its forward-deployed forces and international partners from ballistic missile attack.
O’Reilly and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) managers have cradle-to-grave responsibility for developing, testing and delivering integrated land-, sea- and space-based capabilities for tracking and intercepting ballistic missiles of different types under a wide range of attack scenarios.
And with international cooperation a key tenet of the MDA’s new, lower-risk approach, O’Reilly brings his command background and advanced degrees in physics, business and strategic studies to bear in executing his mission.
He spoke recently with Space News correspondent Barbara Opall-Rome
Does the U.S. Army’s request to transf