William John Hancock (born October 23, 1942) is a retired

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vice admiral who served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Logistics. He had been Director of the US Navy's Office of Budget and Fiscal Management Division. He graduated from the

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in 1965 and was commissioned as an ensign. Hancock later earned a master's degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis at the

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. After his retirement in October 1998, he worked as a consultant.

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