Rutledge Parker "Hap" Hazzard (April 11, 1925 – December 27, 2008) was director of Science and Technology division of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 1978.

[1] Hazzard brought the computer age to the National Photographic Interpretation Center with state-of-the-art tools and modern equipment during a time of great change in technical imagery collection.

As director of NPIC, a heritage organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he brought to the job leadership capabilities, a reserve of energy, an expertise in the analysis of foreign missile systems and an attitude that took every challenge in stride.

Subsequently, as executive officer for the Research and Development Division of the Army Ordnance Missile Command, he participated in the planning and analysis of what became the Saturn I manned space flight program.

Returning to Washington in 1965, he served as an Army member of the Strategic Nuclear Branch of the Chairman's Special Studies Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon until 1968, when he became executive officer of I Field Force Artillery, Vietnam .

[1] After leaving the U.S. Army, Brigadier General Hazzard joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as director of Science and Technology.