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 thattaught 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 north-eastern 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.