2004 Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame inductees

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, April-June, 2004

In 1993, as Brigadier General Kennedy, she served as the Director of Intelligence G2 at U.S. Forces Command. Next she served as the Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She was responsible for human intelligence (HUMINT), counterintelligence (CI), and signals intelligence (SIGINT) doctrine, development of intelligence architectures, and oversight of all intelligence acquisitions. From 1995 until 1997, then Major General Kennedy served as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, DA, Washington, D.C. In this role, she recognized the ever-growing importance of tactical CI and HUMINT in providing critical intelligence support to the warfighter and reorganized the Human Intelligence Division into a full-fledged Army Staff directorate.

From 1997 until her retirement in June 2000, LTG Kennedy served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (DCSINT), DA, in Washington, D.C. As the DCSINT, she ensured that Army Intelligence both supported the warfighter and met the Army's responsibilities in executing the National Military Strategy. She worked hard to ensure the full integration and synchronization of all of the Army's intelligence requirements, resource processes, and priorities with the priorities of the war fighting Combatant Commanders. Her further contributions included the development of winning strategies to articulate Army priorities to key officials with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Intelligence Community, and on Capital Hill. She retired in June 2000.

Since completing her Army career, Claudia Kennedy has chaired First Star, a nonprofit corporation and published her book, Generally Speaking, in September 2001. She is a trustee of Rhodes College and associated with commercial and nonprofit organizations as well as with the International Spy Museum. She has appeared as a military consultant for NBC and CNN and as a guest on several television programs. Claudia Kennedy has been widely recognized for her leadership and lifetime achievements.

Lieutenant General Robert W. Noonan, Jr. (U.S. Army, Retired)

Lieutenant General Robert Noonan's career spans 35 years and includes a progressively challenging list of assignments available to a commissioned officer in MilitaryIntelligence. Commissioned through the Reserve Officers Training Program in 1968 at the University of Notre Dame, his initial assignment was as an Intelligence and Operations Advisor, IV Corps, in South Vietnam. He then served as a Basic Training Company Commander at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, before assignment as the Brigade S2, 1st Brigade, 3ID, in Schweinfurt, West Germany. LTG Noonan attended the Military Officer Advanced Course, and then served as Company Commander at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, with subsequent assignments as a Plans Officer and Manpower Management Analyst. His next assignment took him to 251D, at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, as Division Artillery S2, Company Commander, and Deputy Division G2.