SC State’s newest general officer to speak at Army ROTC Bulldog Battalion’s Military Ball on April 4
White, a 1994 SC State graduate, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in March 2024. She is the first African American woman to achieve this position within the United States Army Acquisition Corps.
Her appointment made her the 23rd officer commissioned through the SC State Army ROTC Bulldog Battalion to achieve the rank of general officer.
She is the program executive officer for combat support and combat service support at Detroit Arsenal, Michigan.
2025 Military Ball ticket information
Single guest: $50
Guest plus one: $65
RSVP by Wednesday, April 3, to Christina Young at 803-530-4064.
Payments may be made via Cash App: $SCStateROTC.
More about Brig. Gen. Camilla A. White
White became program executive officer for combat support and combat service support in June 2024. In this role, she provides professional and executive management for the development, systems integration, acquisition, testing, fielding, sustainment, and modernization of approximately 250 diverse equipment systems across the Army's transportation, quartermaster, ordnance, engineer, and maneuver portfolios. The organization’s military and civilian acquisition professionals deliver modernized tactical wheeled vehicles, engineering equipment, Army watercraft, power generation systems and other force projection and enabling systems to the soldier, joint warfighter, as well as U.S. partners and allies, enabling multi-domain operations in contested environments.
In her most recent assignment, White served as the deputy program executive officer (PEO) Command, Control and Communications-Tactical. Within this position she supported the PEO with the management and oversight of delivering a unified network that addresses the most critical operational needs and supports the Army of 2030. Prior to that assignment she served as the chief of staff to the ASA (ALT). Within this position she was responsible for the oversight of all activities required to ensure the successful execution of the ASA (ALT) mission to continuously modernize the U.S. Army through the timely development and delivery of overmatch capability to deter adversaries and win our nation’s wars.
She was commissioned as a signal officer at SC State. White has served her country in several assignments including 163rd Support Battalion (BN), Army National Guard, Bamberg, SC; platoon leader (PL), 307th Signal BN Camp Carroll, Korea; PL and executive officer, 16th Signal BN; 124th Signal BN S-1 and as an Engineer Brigade signal officer, 4th Infantry Division (ID) Fort Cavazos, Texas.
As a captain, she took command of the most forward deployed signal company in the U.S. Army when she accepted the guidon as company commander A Co, 122 Signal BN, 2nd ID, Camp Casey, Korea. Following that assignment she served as G-3 training officer, 1st U.S. Army; and then served in a training with industry position at General Dynamics.
In 2003, she was assessed as an information system analysts within the Army Acquisition Corps. Since that time she has been assigned as assistant Army capabilities manager for the Joint Network Node-Network and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, Fort Eisenhower, Georgia; assistant product manager PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and assistant project manager Non-Line of Sight Launch System, within Program Executive Office Missiles & Space (M&S), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; Assistant Director for the 402nd AFSB Acquisition Logistics & Technology Directorate, Joint Base Balad, Iraq; assistant program manager for the Global Command & Control System-Joint and as the deputy program manager for Global Combat Support System-Joint within PEO, Command & Control Capabilities, Defense Information Systems Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland.
In 2012, she was assigned to a Battalion Command position as product manager, PAC-3, responsible for the combat proven “Hit-to-Kill” interceptors that defend against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft. Her follow-on assignments included executive officer to the deputy assistant secretary of the Army (Plans, Programs, and Resources) and the director of aviation for the deputy for acquisition and systems management within the Pentagon prior to departing for the U.S. Air War College.
In 2018, White was assigned to a Brigade Command position as Project Manager, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) within the Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Alabama. Within this position she led the THAAD mission to provide the Missile Defense System a rapidly deployable capability to intercept and destroy short-range, medium- range, and limited intermediate-range ballistic missile threats. Upon completion of command, White was assigned as the chief of staff within the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) where she supported the RCCTO mission as it executed programs such as hypersonics, directed energy, and mid-range capability.
White holds several military awards which include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, and Korean Defense Service Medal.
She is joint qualified and has a Bachelor of Arts from South Carolina State University, a Master of Science from Central Michigan University, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Air University, Maxwell AFB.