Duffy served as deputy assistant secretary of defense and Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction, under Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and William Perry and Assistant Secretary Ashton Carter, in the Clinton Administration, and was responsible for negotiating the dismantlement and destruction of weapons of mass destruction in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
She completed over fifty agreements with these countries for dismantling and disposal of their weapons of mass destruction, managing a $400 million annual budget, and received the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1995.
 In May 2016, the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar legislation, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter presented Dr. Duffy and four other individuals with inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards, at a ceremony at the Pentagon.
Duffy served as deputy assistant secretary of defense and Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction, under Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and William Perry and Assistant Secretary Ashton Carter, in the Clinton Administration, and was responsible for negotiating the dismantlement and destruction of weapons of mass destruction in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. She completed over fifty agreements with these countries for dismantling and disposal of their weapons of mass destruction, managing a $400 million annual budget, and received the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1995.  In May 2016, the 25th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar legislation, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter presented Dr. Duffy and four other individuals with inaugural Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards, at a ceremony at the Pentagon.
Gloria Duffy