Herman Raymond Staudt (June 29, 1926 – March 6, 2008)[1] was United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1973 to 1975.

At age 19, he enrolled in the United States Army in 1945, in the midst of World War II.

After graduating, Staudt joined the Signal Corps Laboratories, a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, at Fort Monmouth, first as a field test engineer then as chief project engineer, and then as chief of the Tactical Systems Section.

In 1954, Staudt joined Martin Marietta in Baltimore, working as assistant project engineer on the MGM-1 Matador, then as project engineer of the Missile Master Electronic Defense System, then as operations manager of its Electronics Division.

In 1957, he transferred from Baltimore to Orlando to become director of Martin Marietta's MGM-18 Lacrosse missile program.