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Mark S. Allen
Deputy Director, Counterintelligence
Defense Security Service
Mr. Mark S. Allen, a Defense Intelligence Senior Level executive, is
the Deputy Director, Counterintelligence (CI) Directorate, Defense
Security Services (DSS).
DSS CI is responsible for providing counterintelligence support to
over 13,000 defense contractor facilities employing more than a
million cleared personnel. DSS CI identifies the threat posed by
foreign intelligence services, their surrogates and other hostile
entities and takes appropriate action to protect Department of
Defense (DoD) classified technologies and information resident in
the cleared defense industrial base.
As the deputy director for DSS CI, Mr. Allen oversees services in
production, analysis, collection management, education and training, field operations and
counterespionage. He serves as a subject matter expert regarding the CI program, and is responsible
for the integration of CI into the industrial security base, security policy, and education/training
programs.
Mr. Allen started his federal career at DSS in 1985, acting as a senior Industrial Security specialist.
He has served in various positions within DoD to include: Chief, Counterintelligence, Defense
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA); Chief, Security Services, DTRA; Counterintelligence Program
Manager; and Counterintelligence Liaison for Arms Control, DSS/DTRA. He assumed his current
duties in November 2008.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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Francisco X. Avila
Chief Scientist, Office of Sciences and Methodologies
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Mr. Frank Avila is a career Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer
detailed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). He
was promoted to the CIA Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) in April
2010.
Mr. Avila currently serves as the Chief Scientist for the Office of
Sciences and Methodologies, Directorate of Analysis and Production.
He provides scientific and technical leadership in aspects of Imagery
Science and supports the Directorate in developing a larger scientific
workforce to deepen analytic expertise.
In February 2012 Mr. Avila completed a Joint Duty Assignment with
the National Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT)
Office at DIA as the Vice Chairman of the National MASINT
Committee. He assisted the Chairman in executing the responsibilities
assigned to the MASCOM in ICD 113 and was responsible for the day to day activities of the
Committee.
Mr. Avila has been with the U.S. Government working as an Image Scientist for most of the last
twenty-four years. He began his career in the Intelligence Community with CIA’s Career Training
Program in 1987. In 1989 he joined the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) as an
Image Scientist and worked on processing and exploitation of spectral imagery. In the mid 1990s he
led a prototype team to provide synergistic production support to imagery analysts at NPIC which
evolved to today's Synergistic Support Teams (SSTs) within the Analysis & Production Directorate.
After the formation of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) in 1996 Mr. Avila led a
Technology Team in the Information Services Office ensuring the office’s equities and technical
requirements were represented to various Programs of Record under development. In 1999 he was
assigned as a Project Scientist in NIMA’s Science and Technology Directorate managing research
and development projects related to spectral technologies. In 2001 he returned to the Production
Directorate to lead a group of Image Scientists providing scientific support to GEOINT Analysts at
NGA and the NSG. From 2007 through 2010 he served as the Senior Scientist in NGA’s Office of
Sciences and Methodologies within the Analysis & Production Directorate.
Mr. Avila is active within the Intelligence and Defense Communities related to spectral image
science. He co-chairs an annual spectral conference and currently serves in the editorial board for
the Geospatial Intelligence Review. He is a member of IEEE’s Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society.
Mr. Avila is a graduate of the Hunter College of the City University of New York with a bachelors
and masters degree in Physical Geography. He resides in Virginia, along with his wife and
daughter.
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Lynne E. Baldrighi
Executive Director, Human Resources Strategic Programs and Advisory Services
Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Services (DCPAS)
Ms. Baldrighi is responsible for policies and program affecting over
700,000 civilian employees throughout the Department of Defense.
As Director, she is responsible for policy development and
management of programs in civilian senior executive management,
leadership, learning and development, strategic analysis and reporting,
strategic human capital planning, and recruiting.
Ms. Baldrighi was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in
December 2011 and has 28 years of Federal Service.
Ms. Baldrighi served as an Air Force GS-15 civilian in a broadening
assignment as a foreign policy analyst on the Joint Staff from January
2011 to December 2011 in the Plans and Policy Directorate (J5),
Deputy Director for Middle East, Iran Levant Division. She prepared
the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for interagency decisions on Iran economic
sanctions.
Ms. Baldrighi served as Director of Staff as an NSPS Pay Band 3 civilian in the Air Force Studies and
Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned Directorate (AF/A9) from September 2008 to January
2011. There she managed a 180 military and civilian workforce through military and civilian personnel
programs, contracting, and $7M/year budget.
Colonel Baldrighi served as Chief, Force Development and Integration Division, Air Force Force
Development Directorate, Manpower, Personnel and Services Deputate (AF/A1) from November 2005
through February 2008. She was responsible for synchronizing Air Force force development
information technology solutions, development team policy, competency assessments.
Colonel Baldrighi served as Chief, Plans and Analysis Division in the Air Force Senior Leader
Management Office, Personnel Directorate (AF/A1) from February 2004 to November 2005.
Responsible for developing competency based force development policy and implementation for officer,
enlisted and civilians through the performance management lifecycle, including developing the new
Senior Executive Service pay for performance system.
LtCol Baldrighi served as Corporate Structure Branch Chief, Headquarters Air Force, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Plans and Programs (AF/XP) from April 2002 to February 2004. There, she built two annual
Air Force programming guidance document for AF’s $600B FYDP program and 500,000 people. Prior
to that she was the Chief, Programming Branch in the Plans and Programs Directorate at Pacific Air
Forces Command Headquarters (PACAF/XP) from August 1999 to June 2002. There, she built and
defended the FY03 and FY04 Program Objective Memorandum submissions for the Commander,
PACAF for $16B and $28B, respectively.)
Air Force Award for Meritorious Civilian Service (2011)
Legion of Merit (2008)
BS in Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983
MS in Technology Management, University of Maryland, University College, 1990
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Anita F. Bales
Deputy Director
Defense Contract Audit Agency
In April 2011, Ms. Bales was appointed to her current position as
Deputy Director, Defense Contract Audit Agency. In that position
she assists the Director, DCAA, in managing the worldwide
operation of the DCAA and its resources. DCAA performs contract
audits for DoD and provides accounting and financial advisory
services regarding contracts and subcontracts to all DoD
Components in support of national defense. These services are
provided in connection with negotiation, administration, and
settlement of contracts and subcontracts. Through an executive
team exercises executive direction for a staff of over 4,800
personnel, 85 percent of which are professional auditors, with a
$530 million annual operating budget. Directs planning,
development, execution, and evaluation of comprehensive
programs to implement public law and Secretary of Defense
directives in carrying out the contract audit mission assignment to the Agency. Assists the Director,
DCAA, in establishing policies and objectives aimed at improving operating plans and standards
and ensuring optimum efficiency of support programs such as resources management, professional
development, program review and analysis. She represents DCAA in meetings with top
management officials of DoD and other Federal agencies, foreign, state, and local governments,
leaders of civic groups and other executives. Serves as a member of the Agency Executive Steering
Committee, Career Development Board, and Headquarters Quality Management Board. Ms. Bales
entered the Senior Executive Service in November 2006.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
• Nov 2006-April 2011: Deputy Auditor General, Forces and Financial Audits, Army Audit
Agency, Alexandria, VA
• Oct 2001 – Nov 2006: Program Director, Financial Management Audits, Army Audit
Agency, Alexandria, VA
• Sep 1998 – Sep 2001: Audit Manager, Force Management Audits, Army Audit Agency,
Fort Belvoir, VA
• Jun 1996 – Aug 1998: Student, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• Mar 1992 – Jun 1996: Audit Supervisor, Central Region, Army Audit Agency, St. Louis,
MO
• Jan 1988 – Mar 1992: Auditor: European Region, Army Audit Agency, Frankfurt, Germany
• Aug 1983 – Dec 1987: Auditor: Midwest Region, Army Audit Agency, Rock Island, IL
EDUCATION
MBA, Syracuse University
BS, Business Administration/Accounting, Drake University
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Stephen G. Barth
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost and Economics
ODASA (Cost & Economics)
Mr. Barth is currently assigned as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Cost and Economics. He is responsible for Army policy
and technical direction of all cost and economic activities. He
delivers the Army’s independent cost estimates for weapons &
information systems; manages the development of Army cost
positions on all systems reviewed by the Army Cost Review Board;
and directs cost analyses dealing with force structure, personnel military, civilian, and contract labor, base operations, and weapons &
information systems operation and support. Mr. Barth supports the
Army’s Programming and Budgeting processes with cost and
economic analysis. He also directs the Army’s cost management and
performance management activities for internal and external
reporting. He manages the Army wide cost research program to
deliver cost tools, databases, and models throughout the Army.
Mr. Barth entered the Senior Executive Service (SES) on December 5, 2010, as the Director,
Programs and Strategy, Cost and Economics, for the ASA (FM&C). He was responsible for
providing policy direction and guidance to the Army on the conduct of cost management, mission
costing, force costing, installation and personnel costing.
Mr. Barth served as the Chief, Cost and Performance Management Division within the Office of the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost and Economics (ODASA-CE) where he was the
principle advisor for GFEBS Cost Model design. He had oversight of the Army’s managerial
costing initiatives to include Army ERP - Cost Model Development, Army Cost Management
policy and guidance and Army Cost and Performance Reporting. Mr. Barth has over 22 years of
experience in Army financial management and cost analysis.
Mr. Barth began his career in the Federal Government as a Naval Cost Analysis Intern at the US
Naval Air Systems Command in 1988. In 1995, Mr. Barth graduated the Army Comptrollership
Program at Syracuse University with a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Upon
completion of the program, Mr. Barth began and continues to work at the ODASA-CE. He has
since become a National Security Management Fellow of the Maxwell School at Syracuse, and
received the 2005 Leonard F. Keenan award for distinguished service.
Mr. Barth is married to Susan, his wife of twenty-five years and has three children.
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Dr. Kenneth A. Bertram
Principal Assistant for Acquisition
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Dr. Kenneth A. Bertram serves as the Principal Assistant for
Acquisition for the US Army Medical Research and Materiel
Command (USAMRMC) and is a member of the Senior Executive
Service since July 2009. He is responsible for the advanced
development and acquisition of medical products (drugs, vaccines, and
devices) for the US Army. His duties include the oversight of clinical
trials, Food and Drug Administration product licensure, technology
transfer to commercial partners, contracting, requirements
prioritization, and financial management. Dr. Bertram also serves as the
US Army’s Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) for medical
products.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
• Aug 2008 – Jun 2009: Director, Strategic Business Partnerships Office, US Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD
• Jan 2006 – Jul 2008: Commander, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD
• Sep 2005 – Jan 2006: Special Assistant to the Commanding General, US Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD
• Apr 2005 – Sep 2005: Chief of Staff, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort
Detrick, MD
• May 1999 – Apr 2005: Director, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, US Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD
• Jan 1999 – May 1999: Deputy Director, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, US
Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD
• Apr 1998 – Jan 1999: Chief, Hematology/Oncology Service, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort
Lewis, WA
• Jun 1995 – Apr 1998: Chief, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, Madigan Army Medical
Center, Fort Lewis, WA
• Jun 1992 – Jun 1995: Research Director and Staff, Hematology/Oncology Service, Madigan Army
Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA
• Jul 1991 – Jun 1992: Staff, Hematology/Oncology Service, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort
Lewis, WA
• Jul 1988 – Jun 1991: Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis,
WA
• Jul 1986 – Jun 1988: Resident, Internal Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA
• Jul 1985 – Jun 1986: Intern, Internal Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA
EDUCATION
MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1985
PhD, Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Medicine, Minneapolis, 1981
BS, Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1976
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Daniel E. Bishop
Assistant Director, Operational Capability Requirements
HQUSAF/A5R
Daniel E. Bishop, a member of the Senior Executive Service,
is Assistant Director of Operational Capability Requirements,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Air, Space and Information
Operations, Plans and Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air
Force, Washington, D.C. He establishes policy for
operational capabilities based requirements. The directorate
supports major commands in developing and evaluating
requirements for Air Force-wide modernization programs
including fighters, bombers, mobility aircraft, space systems,
command and control, munitions and missile defense. He cochairs the regular session Air Force Requirements Oversight
Council and is responsible for shaping and finalizing
capabilities-based requirements documents for approval by
the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. He also performs
the management role in the Joint Capabilities Integration and
Development System process by leading the eight Air Force
teams supporting the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Functional Capability Boards, and by representing the Air Force on the Joint Capabilities Board. He
directs and supervises the activities of more than 150 military and civilian employees in 11
divisions, including requirements officers, weapon systems experts, and professional, technical and
clerical staffers.
Mr. Bishop served with Air Force security forces from 1976 to 2005, transitioning from military to
federal civil service in 1983. He has held functional and leadership positions at every organizational
level from the squadron to Headquarters U.S. Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Bishop was the Deputy Director of Joint Integration.
EDUCATION
BS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1989
Master of Public Administration, Troy State University, Troy, AL, 1990
Defense Leadership and Management Program, 2000
Advanced Management Program, Information Resources Management College, National Defense
University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC, 2002
MS in National Security Strategy, National War College, National Defense University, Fort
McNair, Washington, DC, 2006
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Jack L. Blackhurst
Director, Human Effectiveness Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Jack Blackhurst, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is
Director, Human Effectiveness Directorate, 711th Human
Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory, WrightPatterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The directorate is a 1,200-person
research and development organization with facilities at WrightPatterson AFB; Brooks City-Base, Texas; and the Mesa Research
Site, Ariz.
Mr. Blackhurst was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He earned his Air Force
commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in
1974 and began his career as a communications-electronics officer
assigned to Strategic Air Command in the 509th Bomb Wing at
Pease AFB, N.H. After completing his master's degree through the
Air Force Institute of Technology in 1979, he has held numerous management positions within the
Air Force personnel and human research communities, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Science, Technology and Engineering.
Mr. Blackhurst retired in 2004 as a colonel, last serving as the Chief of the Space and Missile
Systems Sector, Headquarters Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB. Prior to his
current assignment, he was Technical Adviser for AFRL's Plans and Programs Office. He was
appointed to the Senior Executive Service in January 2010.
EDUCATION
BA in Psychology, Allegheny College, PA, 1974
MA in Industrial Psychology, Air Force Institute of Technology, St. Mary's University, San
Antonio, TX, 1979
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Rogers Campbell
Executive Director for Sales, Marketing and Policy
Defense Commissary Agency
Rogers E. Campbell, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the
Defense Commissary Agency’s Executive Director for Sales, Marketing
and Policy with oversight of directorates responsible for the agency’s
$5.9 billion sales, operations and policy, health and safety and resale
contracting. Mr. Campbell assumed this position in October 2011 as
part of DeCA’s reorganization.
Mr. Campbell entered federal government service in March 2010 with
an appointment as director of the agency’s East region, after having
worked extensively for more than 30 years in the private sector in a
career associated with selling and marketing various consumer goods.
A former captain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Campbell’s career has taken
him from commanding a tank platoon to leading the marketing, sales
planning and merchandising of the new car sales programs for both the
Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and the Navy
Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM). As vice president and chief marketing officer of Overseas
Military Sales Corporation, he directed marketing efforts on 120 military installations in 30 countries and
aboard U.S. Navy ships through NEXCOM’s Ships Store program.
Mr. Campbell’s career highlights include: managing partner of Marketcorp International, a brand strategy
consultancy; senior director of marketing for Nabisco Foods Group; and director of global new products for
Schering-Plough Consumer Healthcare. He began his consumer packaged goods career at General Mills. Mr.
Campbell is a former elected member of the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education, N.J., and has
served as an admissions liaison officer for the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
2010-2011, Director, DeCA East, Fort Lee, VA
2004-2008, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Overseas Military Sales Corp., Woodbury, NY
1999-2004, President and Managing Partner, Marketcorp International, Inc., Short Hills, NJ
1994-1999, Senior Director of Marketing, Nabisco Foods Group, Inc., East Hanover, NJ
1988-1994, Vice President and General Manager, TMG Advertising, Inc., New York, NY
1983-1988, Marketing Director of Global New Products, Schering-Plough Corp., Kenilworth, NJ
1981-1983, Brand Manager, Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA
1978-1981, Assistant Product Manager, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
1974-1977, Armor Officer, U. S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas, and Stuttgart, Germany
EDUCATION
MBA, Rutgers University, NJ, 1974
BS in Marketing, Distinguished Military Graduate, Saint Peter’s College, NJ, 1973
AWARDS AND HONORS
Army Parachutist Badge, Army Commendation Medal
American Marketing Association – Best New Product Award
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Jay L. Cooper
Director, Civilian Resources and Business Affairs Division
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Mr. Cooper is currently responsible for reviewing,
recommending and revising financial estimates for the Navy
Working Capital Fund, civilian personnel, Information
Technology, and contractor services for inclusion in the budget;
to include justification of these estimates to OSD/OMB and the
Congress. This equates to oversight of ~$75 billion and
~197,000 personnel.
Mr. Cooper was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in
April 2010. He has 20 years of Federal Service.
From Sep 2000 to April 2010, Mr. Cooper served as the
Comptroller, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific,
where he was responsible for management and execution of
appropriated and navy working capital funds in excess of $650M
per year covering over 4,000 employees. Span of control extended from Hawaii to Japan, Thailand,
Diego Garcia, Singapore, Korea, Philippines, and Guam.
Prior to 2000, Mr. Cooper held Comptroller positions with several other Navy shore installations,
specifically Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay Cuba, and Naval Training Center Orlando, Florida.
Mr. Cooper holds a bachelor’s of science degree in public administration from George Mason
University. He is a recipient of three Meritorious Civilian Service Awards, one of which resulted
from 12 months service in Al Anbar Province, Iraq as part of the Department of State’s embedded
Provincial Reconstruction Team initiative during 2007 to 2008. He is a member of the American
Society of Military Comptrollers and is a Certified Defense Financial Manager.
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C. Stephen Cornelius
Associate Director for Missile Development
Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center
Mr. C. Stephen Cornelius was selected for the Senior Executive
Service in April 2009. As the Director for Missile Development, he
manages the Missile Technology Base programs including efforts in
exploratory development, concept demonstration, and advanced
development. He directs the strategic planning for technology
programs and executes efforts directed towards the development of
materiel for new or improved Army guided weapons, missiles, free
rockets, directed energy weapons, and associated supporting
technologies, including aero-thermo chemistry, guidance and control
sensors and seekers, launchers, propulsion, and modeling and
simulation.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
Director for Systems, Weapons Development and Integration Dir., AMRDEC
Deputy Program Executive Officer – Missiles and Space
Deputy Director, Propulsion and Structures Directorate, AMRDEC
Director (Acting), Propulsion and Structures Directorate, AMRDEC
Chief, Systems and Warheads Div., Propulsion and Structures Dir., AMRDEC
Mechanical Engineer, Systems and Warheads Div., Structures Dir., MICOM
Oct 08- Apr 09
Oct 07- Sep 08
Oct 06- Sep 07
Oct 05- Sep 06
Nov 03- Sep 05
May 86- Oct 03
EDUCATION
MBA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2002
MS in Engineering (Mechanical) –University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, 1999
BS in Mechanical Engineering –University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1986
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Joseph P. Duenas
Assistant General Counsel (Intelligence), Office of General Counsel
Department of the Navy
Mr. Duenas is the Assistant General Counsel (AGC) (Intelligence
Law) for the Department of the Navy (DON). He was selected to
be a member of the Senior Executive Service in December 2008
and promoted to assume his present duties on February 2, 2009. As
AGC (Intel Law) he is responsible for managing and directing
intelligence law and national security matters within the
framework of applicable Department of Defense (DoD) and DON
policy and legal requirements as set forth by the Secretary of
Defense, the Secretary of the Navy and the General Counsel of the
Navy, in coordination with the Office of the Judge Advocate
General. Mr. Duenas’ duties encompass all aspects of providing
advice and counsel on intelligence law matters and classified
national security issues, to include Special Access Programs. He
ensures that DON intelligence and intelligence-related activities are conducted in accordance with
law, regulation and policy. He assists the General Counsel, Principal Deputy General Counsel, and
Deputy General Counsel perform their intelligence oversight responsibilities. Mr. Duenas also
provides advice and counsel to senior intelligence and national security officials within the DON.
He oversees the work of the Counsel for the Office of Naval Intelligence, Counsel, Special Projects
Division, and Counsel, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, among others, in providing legal advice and
support to Navy and non-Navy activities. He is a member of the DON’s Office of the General
Counsel Executive Steering Group.
Mr. Duenas served as Counsel, Special Projects Division, and Counsel, Navy Engineering Logistics
Office, from 1989 through January 2009. In these roles, he supervised an office of more than ten
attorneys and staff, supporting senior Navy officials who were tasked with intelligence
responsibilities and classified program and mission requirements. This diverse and challenging
practice included support in acquisition matters, fiscal law issues, civilian personnel law,
environmental and real property law, classified litigation, national security law, and intelligence law
matters. Mr. Duenas was recognized by the Director of National Intelligence as the 2008 National
Intelligence Community Attorney of the Year.
Mr. Duenas served as Associate Counsel, Special Projects Division, from 1987 until he became
Counsel in 1989. Prior to that assignment, he served as an Associate Counsel in the Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Command (1984-87); a trial attorney in the DON Litigation Office (198284); and, as a program support attorney for the Joint Cruise Missile Project Office (1980-1982) and
the Naval Electronic Systems Command (1978-1980).
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Walter B. Eady
Deputy Executive Director, Portfolio Management and Integration Directorate
Defense Contract Management Agency
Mr. Walter B. Eady, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the
Deputy Executive Director of Defense Contract Management &
Integration (PM&I) Directorate responsible for senior-level strategic
customer acquisition enterprise engagements, customer-related
policy, training & tools, and integrated weapon system portfolio
analysis.
Mr. Eady retired from the Air Force as a Colonel in 2009 after serving
over 28 years of active duty service. He began his government career
as an Air Force Supply officer, he also served tours in Contracting,
Fuels, Logistics Planning, Financial Management, transportation and
Program Management. During this time, he was assigned to several
base level organizations with fighters, airlift and Special Operations
aircraft. He was assigned to the Pentagon on the Air Force Staff and
later the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). He also served assignments at the Defense Logistics Agency,
Air Force Materiel Command Staff, and the C-17 Program Office. On two assignments, he served
as Commander, Supply Squadron and Commander DCMA Launch Vehicle Operations. He served
in five different Major Commands to include a tour with the Defense Logistics Agency. He is a
member of the Acquisition Corps.
Previously he served as Deputy Director, DCMA Denver, he was responsible for a Contract
Management Office (CMO) of 205 military and civilian personnel responsible for providing the full
spectrum of acquisition life cycle management support for more than 7,386 contracts valued at over
$21.9 billion, supporting 93 Department of Defense and Federal Agency prime and sub-contractor
ACAT programs. Surveillance and Oversight functions for over 642 contractors located throughout
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Nebraska, an area encompassing over 433,755
square miles.
He graduated from Fayetteville State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business
Administration. He has also received a Master’s of Business Management from Golden Gate
University and a Master’s degree in National Security Strategies from the Industrial College of the
Armed Forces (ICAF).
Mr. Eady has completed the Senior Acquisition Course (SAC) and the Information Strategies
Concentration Program, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. He has completed an Executive Education
Program, Advanced Logistics and Technology at the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics for Equipment
Reliability and Health Maintenance, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta Ga. Mr. Eady also
completed the Program Managers Workshop at the Boeing Leadership Center in St. Louis, Mo, and
the Senior Executive Fellows Program, JFK School of Government at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Mass.
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Richard A. Ellis
Deputy Commander, Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support
Defense Logistics Agency
Mr. Richard A. Ellis is the Deputy Commander, Defense Logistics
Agency Troop Support. DLA Troop Support annually buys over
$14.5 billion worth of food, clothing, textiles, medicines, medical
supplies, construction and equipment items for America's
warfighters and other customers worldwide.
Before coming to DLA Troop Support, Mr. Ellis served as
Contracts Manager, Readiness and Sustainment, Electronics,
Intelligence & Support; BAE Systems, Inc. He was responsible for
providing contracting functional expertise, specifically as it related
to Performance Base Logistics (PBLs).
He retired from the Navy Supply Corps at the rank of Captain after
a 26 year career. His responsibilities included operational logistics,
inventory management, and contracting.
His last assignment was Director of Contracting at Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was responsible for the acquisition of aviation and maritime
repair parts; awarding over 40,000 contracts valued in excess of $4.5 billion annually. During his
tenure, NAVICP awarded 30 Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contracts. Additionally, Mr. Ellis
pioneered the use of on-line reverse auctions in the federal government.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville University, a
Master’s in Business Administration from University of Washington and he attended the Wharton
School Executive Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ellis is also
certified Level III in Acquisition Management.
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James F. Geurts
Deputy Director for Acquisition, Special Operations Research Development and Acquisition Center
U.S. Special Operations Command
Mr. James F. Geurts, a member of the Senior Executive Service,
is the Deputy Director, Special Operations Research,
Development and Acquisition Center, U.S. Special Operations
Command, MacDill AFB, Fla. He is responsible for all special
operations forces research, development, acquisition,
procurement and logistics.
Mr. Geurts, a native of Charleston, S.C., entered the Air Force
in1987 as a distinguished graduate from the Lehigh University
ROTC program, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in electrical engineering. During his Air Force career, he served
as an acquisition program manager with engineering and
program management leadership positions in numerous weapon
systems. These systems included intercontinental ballistic
missiles, surveillance platforms, tactical fighter aircraft,
advanced avionics systems, stealth cruise missiles, training
systems, and manned and unmanned special operations aircraft.
Mr. Geurts commanded an acquisition group and served as the Program Executive Officer for Fixed
Wing Programs at USSOCOM. He retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 2009 after more than
21 years of active duty. Prior to his current assignment, he was the Commander, Joint Acquisition
Task Force Dragon, a team of USSOCOM and service acquisition personnel responsible for
executing USSOCOM’s most urgent acquisitions in response to wartime critical mission needs
statements.
EDUCATION
BS in Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, PA, 1987
MS in Electrical Engineering, Distinguished graduate, Air Force Institute of Technology, WrightPatterson AFB, OH, 1992
Squadron Officer School, Distinguished graduate, Maxwell AFB, AL, 1993
Advanced Program Managers Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA,
1999
MS in National Security Resourcing, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense
University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC, 2004
Executive Program Management Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA,
2005
National Security Studies Program, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington
University, Washington, DC, 2007
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J. Arthur Hagler
Director, Business Resources
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller)
Selected to the Senior Executive Service in June, 2010, Mr. J.
Arthur Hagler serves in the Army Budget Office as the Director for
Business Resources. His primary responsibilities include
formulating, submitting, and defending the $15 billion Army
Working Capital Fund budget, which provides supplies for the
Army and other Department of Defense customers and supports
equipment maintenance and munitions production at Army
industrial facilities. Other responsibilities include formulating and
submitting the $8 billion Army information technology budget and
the $139 million Foreign Military Sales Administration fund.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
• August 2009 – June 2010: Student, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA
• May 2006 – July 2009: Chief, Military Personnel Division, Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, DC
• November 2003 – April 2006: Chief, Industrial Operations Division, Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, DC
• September 2002 – October 2003: Budget Analyst, U.S. Army Installation Management
Command, Arlington, VA
• July 2000 – August 2002: Management Analyst, U.S. Army Materiel Command,
Alexandria, VA
• February 1999 – June 2000: Budget Analyst, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Alexandria,
VA
• February 1993 – January 1999: Presidential Management Intern, then Budget Analyst,
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, DC
EDUCATION
MS, Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 2010
MPA, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 1992
BA, Politics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1989 (cum laude)
SIGNIFICANT TRAINING
National Security Management Course, 2008
Federal Executive Institute, Leadership for a Democratic Society, 2006
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Dr. James J. Hearn
Director, Regional Business, Northwestern Division
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Dr. James J. Hearn was selected for the Senior Executive Service in
July, 2009. As Director, Regional Business, he provides strategic
leadership and technical expertise to the Northwestern Division (NWD),
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and its five operating
Districts. NWD executes civil works project management, military
construction, interagency support, and environmental clean-up for all or
part of 14 states from Seattle to St. Louis. He directly oversees the
Business Resource Division which provides regional finance and
accounting, budget, manpower and management support; Business
Management Division which provides regional governance and strategic
planning; and Business Technical Division which provides technical
advice and direction on all regional engineering and construction
challenges. In addition, Dr. Hearn provides oversight to a large military
construction program, all services operation and maintenance support,
and assistance to interagency partners. Technical challenges revolve
around the balance between fish habitat and water management for hydro power, safety, flood protection,
and navigation.
Dr. Hearn deployed to Afghanistan from July 10 to Jan 11 at Director Joint Forces Integration Office, US
Forces Afghanistan. He coordinated all construction, water and infrastructure development in country. He
regularly brief senior coalition, ministerial and state department leadership of related issues and challenges.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
• Apr 2007 – Jul 2009: Director, Regional Programs and Chief Business Resource Division, South
Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco, CA
• Feb 2003 – Apr 2007: Chief Resource Management Office, Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Los Angeles, CA (Detailed to Program and Project Management, one year)
• Oct 1998 – Feb 2003: Director Personnel and Community Activities and Chief Financial
Management Division (MWR), 80th Area Support Group (BENELUX), Chievres, Belgium
• Aug 1992 – Oct 1998: Community Manager, 410th Base Support Battalion, Dexheim, Germany
• Jan 1989 – Aug 1992: Budget Officer, Budget / Management Analyst, 1st Armored Division / 8th
Infantry Division, Bad Kreuznach, Germany
• Sep 1973 – Dec 1987: Associate Dean Business / Assistant Dean Instruction / Master Teacher /
Teacher, Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake, WA
• Feb 1969 – Apr 1973: U.S. Army 1st Lt, Infantry Airborne Ranger, various locations.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Education, Organizational Leadership, University of Southern California
Advanced Degrees in Strategic Studies, Business Administration, Education/Counseling
U.S. Army War College 2006
Army Management Staff College, 1995
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Denise D. Humphrey
Deputy Director, Center for Development of Security Excellence
Defense Security Service
Denise D. Humphrey is the Deputy Director, Center for
Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) Directorate,
Defense Security Service (DSS). In this position, she serves as
the senior security advisor for the agency's security education,
training and security professionalization programs, including
oversight of the development of the Security Professional
Education and Development Certification Program. She is
currently the Chair of the Department of Defense Security
Training Council. She has played a key role in the development
and implementation of the DoD Security Professional Education
Development (SPēD) Certification Program. The SPēD
Certification Program is part of DoD’s initiative to
professionalize the security workforce.
Ms. Humphrey joined DSS in July 1998, and during this time she has worked in a number of
positions within SETA to include DSS Academy (DSSA) instructor, Information Security Team
Leader, Distance Learning Development Manager, Curriculum Manager, and Operations Manager.
Prior to DSS, Ms. Humphrey served as a security specialist for the Defense Information Systems
Agency, and served as a security specialist for the Defense Mapping Agency. Before joining the
U.S. Government Denise worked for Wells Fargo Guard Service as a site supervisor for a major
defense contractor.
Ms. Humphrey graduated with honors from Western Maryland College with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Sociology with an emphasis on Criminal Justice and was commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. She served as a counter-signals intelligence officer for the
Intelligence Threat Analysis Center. In 1998, Ms. Humphrey graduated from the George
Washington University with a Master of Arts degree in Security Management.
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Michael R. Hutchison
Executive Director and Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting
Army Contracting Command
Mr. Michael R. Hutchison serves as Executive Director and Principal
Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC) for the Army
Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI), located on Rock
Island Arsenal, IL. As such, he serves as the Center’s senior civilian
procurement and production authority, supporting the total acquisition
requirements of six diverse customers: the U.S. Army Sustainment
Command (ASC); the Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle
Management Command (JM&L-LCMC) – Rock Island; Program
Executive Office – Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS); the
CENTCOM Contracting Command (C3); the Surface Deployment and
Distribution Command (SDDC) and the Office of the Program
Manager – Saudi Arabian National Guard (OPM-SANG).
In this position, he advises the Commanding Generals/Executive
Directors of all six supported Commands/Activities on the total acquisition process, including policy
development, compliance and review, contract pricing, contract management, and associated support.
And, as PARC for all six Commands/Activities, he is responsible for staff supervision and management
of major contracting areas including Chemical Demilitarization (supporting the Chemical Materials
Agency or CMA), Ammunition, Installations, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP),
Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS), Reachback Contracting for Southwest Asia (SWA) and the Contract
Support Staff, having oversight of almost 500 personnel and in excess of $80 billion worth of contracts.
Mr. Hutchison provides leadership and vision to the ACC-RI, and has been instrumental in developing
the organizational culture that has resulted in the ACC-RI’s receipt of numerous honorary awards for
excellence, including the David Packard Award for Acquisition Excellence (2005), the Small Business
Contract Specialist of the Year (2007 and 2009), the Besson Award (2007, two categories, and 2009,
one category), the Army Acquisition Excellence Award (2006 and 2009) and the Secretary of the Army
Excellence in Acquisition Award (2006 and 2007).
He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps and is Level III certified. His previous acquisition
assignments include Deputy Director of the Rock Island Contracting Center; Deputy Director and Chief,
Contracting Support Division of the ASC Acquisition Center, Rock Island; Procurement Analyst, Office
of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, U.S. Army Materiel
Command, Alexandria, Virginia; and Procurement Analyst, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Army
Materiel Command, Alexandria, Virginia.
Mr. Hutchison has a Master’s Degree in National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed
Forces and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, St. Louis University, Missouri.
He has received the Army Acquisition Excellence Award – 2009 (Team: Transforming the Way We Do
Business), the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism – 2009, the Secretary of the
Army Excellence in Contracting Award – 2008 (Team: Equipping and Sustaining Our Soldiers’
Systems), the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service – 2004 and the Achievement Medal for Civilian
Service – 1991.
Mr. Hutchison is a member of the National Defense Industrial Association.
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Bernard P. Ingold
Principal Deputy, Chief of Legislative Liaison
Office Chief of Legislative Liaison
Bernard P. Ingold was selected for the Senior Executive Service in June
2010 to serve as the Principal Deputy Chief of Legislative Liaison, Office
of the Chief of Legislative Liaison (OCLL), Office of the Secretary of the
Army. As the principal assistant to the Chief of Legislative Liaison, Mr.
Ingold participates in developing policies and plans, and integrating and
coordinating execution of all OCLL functions and activities. He advises
and assists the Army leadership on legislative aspects of DA policies, plans
and program, prepares Army leadership for Congressional engagements,
and serves as a liaison to Congress on Army issues.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
Aug 1999 – Jun 2010: Deputy Chief Legislative Counsel, OCLL
Jul 1996 – Jul 1999: Deputy Director Legal Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Jul 1993 – Jul 1996: Legislative Counsel, OCLL
Jul 1991 – Jun 1993: Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Berlin
Jul 1987 – Jun 1991: Professor of Administrative Law, The Judge Advocate General’s School,
Charlottesville, VA
EDUCATION
MS, National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Wash. DC, 2004
LL.M., The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1989
LL.M., The Judge Advocate’s General School, Charlottesville, VA, 1987
J.D., The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1979
B.G.S., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975
AWARDS AND HONORS
Army Superior Civilian Service Award, 2006
Defense Superior Service Award, 1999
Legion of Merit Award, 1993
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS:
Arkansas Bar Association
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
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Laura A. Koller
Assistant Deputy Director, TechSIGINT and Ground Capabilities
National Security Agency
Ms. Koller is the Assistant Deputy Director for TechSIGINT and
Ground Capabilities (T6) within the Technology Directorate, responsible
for managing and modernizing the overhead ground and TechSIGINT
architectures and investments to optimize enterprise capabilities.
For the first 10 years of Ms. Koller’s career, she worked in the
Directorate of Technology and Systems (DDT) concentrating on
network architecture and communications, both wide area and local area.
She has led technical organizations across the Agency at the branch,
division, office level, and group level.
Ms. Koller PCSed to Menwith Hill Station (MHS), from 1994 to 1998.
She was the Division Chief responsible for networks and communications, overseeing the largest
Communications Center outside NSAW.
Ms. Koller was a Division Chief in the Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Directorate working in the
Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services/Office of Target Pursuit organization. She was responsible
for cryptanalytic decryption, exploitation, computer forensics, and computer network exploitation
against a wide range of targets.
As the Deputy Office Chief for End-User Products within the Information Assurance (IA)
Directorate, Ms. Koller was responsible for developing and delivering high assurance secure wired
and wireless products that met customer needs by using a range of IA standards. She led the office
through the transition of the organization from IAD into the new “blended” NSA Commercial
Solutions Center (NCSC) where she became the Deputy Office Chief for Edge Systems Solutions
Engineering.
After graduating from ICAF in June 2007, Ms. Koller became the Group Chief of the newly formed
Mission Deployments and Technical Services Group. She led the stand-up of the organization
responsible for the design, test, deployment, sustainment, and operational analysis of
TURBULENCE cryptologic mission systems.
Ms. Koller graduated from Merrimack College, North Andover MA., with a BS in Computer
Science. After joining the National Security Agency (NSA) in August 1984, she earned her
Master’s in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, graduating in 1988. In June
2007, Ms. Koller graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), National
Defense University with a degree in National Resource Strategy.
Ms. Koller and her husband Wes live in Marriottsville, MD with their two children, Joshua and
Emily. Most of her free time revolves around her children’s activities – in her spare time she does
enjoy traveling, exercising, and shopping!
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Edward R. Koucheravy
Director, Naval Forces Division
OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE)
Ed Koucheravy was selected for the Senior Executive Service and Director,
Naval Forces Division in September 2010. As Director of Naval Forces
Division, he is responsible for oversight of US Navy programs and
capabilities associated with carriers, surface combatants, submarines,
amphibious ships, and support vessels, as well as for naval munitions, landbased aircraft, rotary wing aircraft and other programs. His team supports
DoD acquisition activities, with particular responsibility for developing
Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) guidance for Navy programs and reviewing
AoA studies for sufficiency to support milestone decisions. The Naval Forces
Division also conducts and supervises a variety of studies that investigate
naval capabilities and requirements which inform resource allocation
decisions by the Secretary of Defense.
Mr. Koucheravy graduated from the United States Military Academy at West
Point, New York in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the US Army
Infantry. In 1988, Mr. Koucheravy received a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research from the
US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), in Monterey, California. Mr. Koucheravy’s 22-year Army career
included a variety of leadership, command, and staff tours in CONUS and Europe as well as an assignment
as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the US Military Academy.
In1994 he was assigned to Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate on the Army Staff in the Pentagon.
He was responsible for guiding the development of and integrating the Army Program Objective
Memorandum (POM) submission. He played a key role in developing three Army POM submissions, with
particular responsibility for optimizing Army capability within resource constraints. In 1997, he was
assigned as a military operations research analyst in OSD Program Analysis and Evaluation, providing
oversight of DoD strategic mobility programs. In 1999 he co-led the DoD Mobility Requirements Study
2005, which evaluated US strategic mobility capabilities versus requirements, directly influencing key
investments in strategic airlift, sealift, and pre-positioned stocks.
After retirement from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2000, he accepted a position as a program
manager with Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS). While with EDS, he managed a large IT
program which developed, fielded, and maintained nearly 300 distance learning classrooms throughout the
US for the National Guard Bureau.
In 2003, Mr. Koucheravy joined OSD CAPE as an operations research analyst in the Land Forces Division.
While serving in Land Forces Division, he influenced key decisions concerning many significant Army
programs, including Future Combat Systems (FCS), Comanche Helicopter, Stryker combat vehicle systems,
Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), and others. He also developed analysis to support decisions
concerning significant adjustments to Army force structure, including the modularity initiative to reorganize
from division-based to brigade-based organizations and the growth in Army end strength to support the
increased rotational demand of the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2008, Mr. Koucheravy was selected to serve as Special Assistant to the Director of OSD CAPE, providing
advice, short-term analysis, and other support to the Director. He provided a key interface for CAPE with
external organizations, as well as managing information requirements and staff actions within CAPE. In
2010 he developed and executed a plan to reorganize the Immediate Office of the Director of CAPE, and
assumed additional duties as the CAPE Chief of Staff.
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William T. Lasher
Deputy Chief of Staff, G-6
Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces Command
Bill Lasher was appointed to the Senior Executive Service (SES) on
June 20, 2010. As the DCS, G-6, he provides vision, direction,
oversight and management of the FORSCOM, DCS, G-6, with
general staff responsibility for directing and supervising tactical
Information Technology (IT) readiness of FORSCOM units as well
as training and readiness of FORSCOM’s Signal units. He also
oversees IT services provided to Headquarters, FORSCOM. Prior to
his selection into the SES, he served as Chief, Network Services
Division, FORSCOM G-6, which provided network and information
services to Headquarters, FORSCOM, and Forts McPherson and
Gillem. He was responsible for the planning and preparation of the
movement of FORSCOM’s IT services and infrastructure in support
of the Headquarters’ move to Fort Bragg, NC.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
June 2010 - Present: Deputy Chief of Staff, G6, U.S. Army Forces Command
November 2009 - June 2010: Chief, Network Services Division, FORSCOM G6
September 2005-November 2009: Program Manager, US Army Reserve Networks
July 2002 - September 2005: Deputy Chief of Staff, G6, U.S. Army Forces Command
July 2000 - July 2002: Commander, 22nd Signal Brigade, V Corps
July 1997 - July 2000: Chief, Joint Systems Division, U.S. European Command, J6
June 1994 - June 1996: Commander, 125th Signal Battalion, 25th Infantry Division
December 1993 - March 1994: Deputy U6, UN Staff, UN Operations in Somalia
June 1993 - December 1993: Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G6, III Corps
June 1977 - June 1993: Served in a variety of company and field grade Army positions
EDUCATION
MS in Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1988
BS, United States Military Academy, 1977
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Roberta Lowe
Director, Financial Management Directorate
Washington Headquarters Services
Robbie Lowe assumed the position as the Director, Financial
Management Directorate (FMD) in January 2011. In this role, she serves
as the senior civilian executive and advisor to the Director, Washington
Headquarters (WHS), on all financial management matters for specified
DoD-wide operational and administrative programs. This includes
oversight of $6.8 billion for the Office of the Secretary of Defense
(OSD), WHS and assigned Department of Defense (DoD) agencies as
well as managing accounts for designated offices, programs, and task
forces. In addition, Ms. Lowe is responsible for establishing and
administrating the full spectrum of budgetary and financial management
policy, programs, and procedures pertaining to funds appropriated for use
by OSD, WHS, and other Defense activities as assigned.
Prior to assuming her role as the Director of FMD, Ms. Lowe served as
the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for US Agency for International
Development (USAID) from June 2008 to January 2011. USAID is an independent Federal government
agency that supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives
by supporting economic growth; agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention
and humanitarian assistance.
Ms. Lowe began her government service as a commissioned officer in 1981 through the U.S. Air Force
Officer Training School, San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Lowe spent the next 27 years of active military duty in
various world-wide financial management assignments at wing, major command, the Defense Finance and
Accounting Service and Headquarters Air Force. She was promoted the rank of colonel in September 2003.
In 2004 Ms. Lowe served as the Chief Operations Division, Budget Operations Directorate, Assistant
Secretary for Financial Management and Comptroller. She was the senior financial officer for Operations
and Maintenance issues, for both Formulation and Execution issues, throughout the Air Force. In 2006 she
was selected as the USAFE Comptroller where she was responsible for financial operations of the command
as the principal advisor to COMUSAFE and the Chief Financial Officer. She served in this position until her
retirement from the Air Force in June 2008. Ms. Lowe entered the Senior Executive Service in June 2008.
Ms. Lowe graduated in 1980 from Chapman University, Orange, California, with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in economics and business administration. In 1987 she earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA)
from William Carey University, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she was recognized as the MBA student of
the year.
She is a graduate of Air Force Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War
College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Ms. Lowe is also a graduate of the Professional Military
Comptroller School, now known as the Defense Financial Management and Comptroller School, also at
Maxwell AFB, AL and the Naval Postgraduate School’s Defense Resource Management Course, Monterey,
CA.
Ms. Lowe’s awards include the Legion of Merit with one oak leaf cluster and the Defense Meritorious
Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters. She was designated a certified financial manager by the
Association of Government Accountants in 1996. Ms. Lowe was also honored by the American Society of
Military Comptrollers as the 1999 Department of Defense’s Outstanding Contributors to USAF Financial
Management – Officer (Assigned Outside of the Air Force).
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Michelle S. LoweSolis
Director of Civilian Force Integration
Headquarters, Air Force Personnel Center
Michelle S. LoweSolis, a member of the Senior Executive
Service, is Director of Civilian Force Integration,
Headquarters, Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph Air Force
Base, Texas. She is responsible for all facets of civilian
recruiting and civilian human resources force development
within all Air Force career fields. The directorate implements
policies and procedures related to civilian force management
and develops goals and objectives that integrate career field
management, employment staffing, and field advisory services.
The directorate also oversees civilian force sustainment,
civilian benefits and entitlements, program evaluation,
operations support, and force renewal.
Ms. LoweSolis has served in numerous force support positions.
Her career includes an assignment at the Air Force Personnel
Center as the Chief of Future Systems. In that position, she
established the electronic Official Personnel Folder for
civilians. She became the Chief of Personnel Strategic Plans at the Pentagon, where she obtained
Program Objective Memorandum dollars to support civilian force shaping, the stabilization of
Military Personnel Data System, and transformation of personnel service delivery. Before moving
into her current position in 2008, she was the Director, NAF Transformation, Headquarters Air
Force Services Agency, San Antonio, Texas.
EDUCATION
BS in Business Administration and Management, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 1984
GS-15 Leadership Course, 2003
Civilian Senior Leadership Program, 2007
MS in Business Administration, American University, Washington, DC, 2007
Air Force Senior Leadership Course, 2008
Enterprise Leadership Seminar, 2009
Air Force Civilian Leadership Course, 2009
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C. Carr Lucas
Senior Expert for Human Capital Technology, Directorate for Human Capital
Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Lucas was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Level in
January 2010. As the Senior Expert for Human Capital Technology,
Mr. Lucas proves expertise and counsel to the Director and Deputy
Director for Human Capital in defining requirements, planning,
evaluating, integrating and implementing enterprise human capital
business tools in support of the Agency’s complex human capital and
intelligence missions.
Mr. Lucas is a recognized expert in Human Resource
Transformation, Compensation, and Human Resources Systems and
Technologies. He has over 30 years of experience as a consultant,
senior manager and director in such Fortune 500 firms as IBM,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Cox Enterprises,
and Georgia-Pacific. He has also provided human resource transformation and compensation
consultant services to the United States Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence and Defense
Intelligence Agency.
As an expert in human resources transformation, he led the reengineering of human resources and
payroll processes, to include implementing shared services centers for payroll, benefits and other
human resources transaction processing services. Mr. Lucas also has extensive experience in
enabling human resource applications, including human resource information systems, time
management, applicant tracking, résumé scanning, computer-aided job evaluation, succession
planning, training administration, compensation and call center production systems.
Mr. Lucas holds both a B.S. and M.B.A. from Georgia College and State University in
Milledgeville, Georgia. He is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and a Lean Six Sigma
Green Belt (LSS GB).
Mr. Lucas and his wife Becky have two grown children, Luke and Kate.
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Francis A. Machina
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
U.S. Special Operations Command
Mr. Francis Machina, a member of the Senior Executive Service,
is the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for U.S. Special Operations
Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. He also serves as the
Deputy Director, Special Operations Financial Management. He is
responsible for special operations budget and execution issues
totaling more than $10 billion annually. His office provides
fiscal direction and guidance to the four USSOCOM component
commands and a subunified command, and regularly interfaces
with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, military services and
Congressional staffs.
Mr. Machina entered the Army in 1982 after graduating as a
distinguished military graduate from St. Bonaventure University
and commissioned as a finance officer. He was selected for the
Army Comptrollership Program at Syracuse University and received the James Neuman award for
academic excellence. Mr. Machina's career included regular assignments between conventional and
special operations resource management positions. His 14 years of special operations support
included senior-level assignments at Joint Special Operations Command and U.S. Special
Operations Command. He also commanded the largest finance battalion in Europe, the 106th
Finance Battalion in Wuerzburg, Germany, and deployed with the unit to Kosovo. He completed a
26-year Army career, retiring at the rank of colonel in August 2008.
Mr. Machina was a Program Manager in the Resource Management Innovations Directorate at
CACI, Inc., until he entered federal service in August 2010. He is a Certified Defense Financial
Manager, former chairman of the American Society of Military Comptrollers Professional
Development Institute, and two-time former president of the Tampa Bay Chapter of ASMC.
EDUCATION
BA in Accounting, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, 1982
MBA (comptrollership), Syracuse University, NY, 1990
Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 1995
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Andrew Morgan
Director, Business Integration Office
OSD Comptroller
Mr. Drew Morgan was appointed to Senior Executive Service in
December 2011 as the Director for Business Integration Office
within the Office of Under Secretary of Defense – Comptroller. In
this capacity, he advises the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and
other Department of Defense stakeholders on business system
integration and is responsible for the activities, relationships, plans
and programs to support the Department’s strategic objectives to
reach audit readiness and improve overall financial efficiencies. Mr.
Morgan also chairs Defense governance boards and improvement
initiatives.
Before joining OSD, Mr. Morgan served as the Director for
Acquisition, Contracting, and eBusiness Policy at the Naval Sea
Systems Command (NAVSEA) headquarters in Washington, DC. While in this position, he led the
functional implementation of the Navy’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) across the NAVSEA
enterprise at headquarters and 26 field sites, the largest public or private sector implementation to
date affecting 30,000 users. He also led numerous process improvement and business reengineering initiatives within Navy, crossing multiple functional disciplines.
Prior to this position, he served as the Director for Business and Financial Management for PEO
Joint Strike Fighter (F-35), the then-largest program within the Department of Defense, responsible
for a $6+ billion budget for Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and eight international cooperative
partners. Working closely with the international partners, Denmark, Canada, Italy, Turkey,
Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, and Norway, he negotiated the financial framework and
agreements for the program.
Mr. Morgan served as a naval officer in a variety of assignments, serving on tours as the senior
logistician afloat in the Arabian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom and aboard ships and
submarines supporting Operation Desert Storm and other contingency operations. He also served as
a comptroller and contracting officer at several operational commands, and served as a logistician
responsible for supporting U.S. operations across Western Pacific and Middle Eastern theaters.
Mr. Morgan is a member of the DOD’s acquisition professional community, certified DAWIA level
III in two acquisition functional disciplines; contracting and logistics. He attended the Executive
Development Program at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; graduated
Summa Cum Laude from George Washington University in Washington, DC with a Masters in
Business Administration in International Finance; holds an Master of Science degree in National
Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces;
and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Morgan resides in Severna Park, Maryland with his wife, Nancy, also a member of the senior
executive service at the Missile Defense Agency.
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Judith B. Oliva
Director, Budget Management and Execution
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Budget)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller
Judith B. Oliva, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the
Director, Budget Management and Execution, Office of the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Budget), Office of
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial
Management and Comptroller, Washington, D.C. She is
responsible for the management and oversight of budget
formulation and execution activities of $160 billion in Air Force
appropriations. She also establishes and enforces budget policy
Air Force-wide, and is responsible for the formulation,
justification, and execution for the Air Force Working Capital
Funds and Air Force Security Assistance budgets.
Ms. Oliva, a native of Alabama, began her federal service career
in 1989 as a budget analyst for U.S. Army Europe. In 1994, she
transferred to the Air Force as a budget officer for the Air Force
Audit Agency. She joined the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget in 1998 where
she has held progressively more responsible positions in the areas of budget formulation and
execution, funds control, fiscal policy and security assistance. Ms. Oliva was appointed to the
Senior Executive Service in April 2010.
EDUCATION
BS in Business and Management, University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD,
1987
MS in Accounting, Strayer University, Washington, DC, 2001
MA in National Security and Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, 2004
Defense Leadership and Management Program, Washington, DC, 2008
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E. Eric Porter
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1
Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces Command
Serves as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff , G-1 responsible for the
development, execution and supervision of military and civilian
personnel programs, plans, policies and procedures required to
ensure individual and unit personnel readiness, strength
management, and mobilization/deployment of a military force of
nearly 850,000 including both active and reserve Army components
and a civilian workforce exceeding 10,000 employees. United
States Army Forces Command representative to the Army’s Human
Capital Enterprise Board, Services and Infrastructure Core
Enterprise Board, and the Prepare the Army forum. Exercises
responsibility for unit personnel readiness, military personnel
management, civilian human resources management, reenlistment,
Army well-being/quality of life, family readiness programs, leader
development, FORSCOM Senior Executive Service program,
deployment cycle support, unit reintegration, strategic integration, Army transformation, manpower
requirements determination, command safety; equal opportunity and equal employment
opportunity; and other initiatives/functions required to acquire, sustain and retain a quality military
and civilian work force.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
2011 – Present , Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, NC
1979 – 2011, Active Duty Military Service with assignments at U.S. Army Forces Command; The
62d Adjutant General ; Combined Forces Land Component Command; Office of the Chief of Staff,
Army; Eighth United States Army; U.S. Special Operations Command; Army Personnel
Command; 82d Airborne Division; and XVIII Airborne Corps
EDUCATION
MA in National Security and Strategic Studies, Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1998
BS in Business Administration, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC, 1978
AWARDS AND HONORS
• Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
• Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster
• Defense Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
• Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters
• Joint Service Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
• Master Parachutist Badge
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Susan C. Raser
Executive Assistant Director
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Special Agent Susan C. Raser was appointed as the Executive Assistant
Director for Criminal Investigations and Operations for the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service in October 2011.
As the Chief Executive Officer for the NCIS Criminal Investigations
Directorate, Special Agent Raser directs NCIS investigative activities
to defeat criminal threats facing the Department of the Navy (DON)
personnel, equipment and facilities; establishes NCIS criminal
investigative and crime reduction priorities and performance
requirements, oversees Criminal Investigative Directorate strategic
planning efforts, and advises the NCIS Deputy Director on all aspects
of the Criminal Investigations Program. Additionally, SA Raser leads
the criminal investigations outreach program to establish, enhance and influence NCIS engagement
activities worldwide to increase the effects of NCIS investigative operations.
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Raser served as Deputy Inspector General responsible for inspection
of field and headquarters components as well as investigations involving employee misconduct. She
previously served as Deputy Assistant Director for the Criminal Investigations Program with
responsibilities for manning, training and equipping over 400 billets worldwide.
SA Raser’s previous assignments include Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Operations
and Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Management and Administration.
SA Raser began her law enforcement career in 1980 as a reserve police officer with the City of
Orange (CA) Police Department and in 1981 became a police officer for the City of San Clemente
(CA). In 1991, she became a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Throughout her career, SA Raser has served in numerous field locations including Marine Corps
Base El Toro, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan. Her follow-on
assignment included a move to Washington, D.C. as the Program Manager for Sex Crimes and
Family Violence at NCIS Headquarters. SA Raser was subsequently selected as Supervisory Special
Agent, (SSA), for the Crimes Against Persons Branch at NCISHQ, and later assumed duties as the
SSA at Marine Corps Base Quantico. She has performed as the temporary Assistant Special Agent
in Charge, (ASAC), of the Washington D.C. Field Office, and as ASAC of the Hawaii Field Office
before returning to NCIS Headquarters in Washington D.C in 2007.
Ms. Raser was born in El Paso, Texas and attended the University of California, Irvine where she
earned a bachelor's degree in Social Ecology with an emphasis in Criminal Justice.
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Dr. Banahalli R. Ratna
Director, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering
Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Banahalli R Ratna is the Director for the Center for Bio/Molecular
Science and Engineering (CBMSE) at the Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL). In this capacity, she provides executive direction and
technical leadership in the development of objectives and policies
necessary to conduct basic and applied research in areas of
bio/molecular science and engineering to meet DON/DoD operational
needs. Under her supervision, basic science research projects are
pursued that investigate biological and biomimetic processes at the
molecular level and to learn from biology to design and develop novel
systems. The results of the basic science are translated to develop
applied technology projects such as alternate energy sources and
sensors for broad spectrum pathogen identification and chem/bio
agents. She acts as a subject knowledge expert on bio/molecular science and engineering and
provides advice to the NRL management. Working with Dr. Ratna is an ST member and a staff of
over 80 federal scientists, contractors, post-doctoral fellows and students. She was selected to the
Senior Executive Service (SES) in March 2009. Dr. Ratna has been an employee of NRL for 16
years.
Dr. Ratna has over 240 technical publications with over 3800 citations and an h-index of 35. She
has also authored 25 patents. She has received several NRL Research Publication Awards for her
work. She has given more than 150 Invited and Contributed talks at National and International
Meetings and Universities. She has co-organized a number of National and International
Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society and
International Liquid Crystal Society.
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Anthony P. Reardon
Director of Staff, Legislative Liaison
Office of the Secretary of the Air Force
Anthony “Tony” Reardon, a member of the Senior Executive
Service, is the Director of Staff, Legislative Liaison, Office of
the Secretary of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force,
Washington, D.C. He is responsible for organizing,
coordinating, and resourcing the Legislative Liaison
Directorate. He develops and executes the Air Force
legislative program, and ensures the Air Force provides a
consistent and cohesive message through Congressional
engagements, inquiries, and correspondence. He works with
Members of Congress, Congressional staffs, and senior Air
Force leaders on legislative issues that affect Air Force
programs, policies, and weapon systems. He prepares senior
Air Force leaders for Congressional hearings, providing
critical oversight of the legislative process of Air Force
nominations requiring Senate confirmation.
Mr. Reardon served on active duty in the Air Force from September of 1982, through November,
2003. In his capacity as a weapon system officer flying the RF-4C, and later as a staff officer, he
held several key operational and staff positions at the squadron, Wing, Major Command, Army
Division and Headquarters, U.S. Air Force levels. Following his retirement, Mr. Reardon worked
extensively in the Air Force Corporate Structure, serving in multiple positions, including the Deputy
of the Program Integration Division. He also served as a division chief in Air Force Budget,
directing three separate divisions. He attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces prior to
his appointment in the Senior Executive Service.
EDUCATION
BA in Psychology, Florida State University, FL, 1981
Squadron Officers School (Correspondence), 1986
Air Command and Staff College (Correspondence), 1996
Air War College (Correspondence), 2001
MS in System Management, University of Southern California, CA, 1990
Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Development Program, 2005
MS in National Resource Strategy, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort McNair,
Washington, DC, 2007
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Sandra V. Richardson
Director, Resource Issues
OSD Comptroller
Ms. Sandra V. Richardson was appointed as Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Resource Issues on July 20, 2009. She
oversees the Department of Defense (DoD) day-to-day
implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 and monitors the DoD’s effectiveness. In addition,
she advises OUSD(C) on the formulation and development of
Defense policies for financial management.
Prior to returning to DoD, Ms. Richardson served as finance
officer in the U.S. Army where she retired on December 31,
2006 with over 28 years of service. Her last assignment was
Senior Military Executive Assistant to the Director, Defense
Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). She was the principal
adviser to the agency’s Director, who provided worldwide
finance and accounting services to DoD.
She held various DoD command and staff financial management positions during her 28 years of
service. Command positions: Commander, DFAS Orlando; Commander, 176th Finance Battalion,
Yongsan, Korea; Commander, 45th Finance Support Unit and Deputy Finance and Accounting
Officer in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Key staff positions: Program/Budget Officer for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary of the Army and Chief Financial Management Officer for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Ms. Richardson is a native of Beatrice, Alabama. She graduated with honors from Tuskegee
University with a Bachelors of Science in Accounting. She also holds a Masters of Accountancy
from the University of Alabama. Her military education includes: United States Army Command
and General Staff College, Joint Professional Military Education Course, and Army War College.
She received many awards and decorations during her years of service including the Defense
Superior Service Award, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service, and
Army Commendation Medals. She was also awarded the Tuskegee University Presidential
Distinguished Service Award.
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Monique Rowtham-Kennedy
Deputy General Counsel (Environment & Installations)
OSD Office of General Counsel
Monique Rowtham-Kennedy was appointed Deputy General
Counsel (Environment & Installations), Office of General
Counsel, Department of Defense on May 9, 2011. Ms
Rowtham-Kennedy and her staff provide legal counsel to the
Office of the Secretary of Defense on a full range of
environmental and energy issues, as well as military
construction, real property and installations management, and
base realignment and closure. The Deputy General Counsel
also provides counsel and support to the military departments
through her counterparts in the Offices of General Counsel for
the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Ms. Rowtham-Kennedy is an attorney with nearly twenty
years of experience in corporate, contract, and regulatory
matters, particularly in the area of electric energy
infrastructure development and cost recovery. Prior to serving
as Deputy General Counsel, Ms. Rowtham-Kennedy was Senior Counsel in the Legal Department
of American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utilities and generators of electricity in the
U.S. In this position, she was primarily responsible for representing AEP and its affiliates in
administrative proceedings, including rate cases, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC). Ms Rowtham-Kennedy also served as Senior Counsel with Northeast Utilities, based in
Hartford, Connecticut and was an associate with the law firm Day, Berry and Howard (now Day
Pitney, LLC).
Ms Rowtham-Kennedy has actively served on a number Boards of Directors of non-profit
organizations such as Hillstead Museum, Glastonbury ABC (“A Better Chance”), Hartford Region
YWCA, Connecticut Appleseed, and the Hartford Children’s Theater. She has also provided legal
advice to several other non-profit organizations and small businesses. Monique has also actively
served her community as a member of the 2002 and 2009 City of Hartford Charter Revision
Commissions and as Manager of the Hartford Soccer Club girls travel soccer league.
Ms Rowtham-Kennedy earned her Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law and her
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University. She is married to Kenneth H.
Kennedy, Jr., has three daughters, and is the guardian of her teenage nephew.
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Michael D. Scott
Executive Director, Defense Logistics Agency Energy
Defense Logistics Agency
Michael Scott is the executive director of the Defense
Logistics Agency Energy, a field activity of the DLA at Fort
Belvoir, Va. He assumed his current duties as executive
director February 2011, and is responsible for providing the
Department of Defense and other government agencies with
comprehensive energy solutions in the most effective and
efficient manner possible.
Prior to his current position, Scott was the Executive Director
for the Materiel Policy, Process and Assessment Directorate
(J33), for DLA Logistics Operations (J3) from September
2008 to February 2011. Scott’s management responsibility
included the development and application of DLA logistics
policy, plans, programs and operations for all classes of
supplies managed by DLA. He was also responsible for order
management, demand and supply planning requirements,
inventory management, retail integration, logistics research & development, operations research,
and the technical and quality processes across the DLA enterprise.
Scott has worked at DLA since 1985, both at the DLA Headquarters and the DLA Land and
Maritime. His previous positions include Deputy Director and Director for Strategic Planning and
Enterprise Transformation (J5), Business Systems Modernization Organizational Alignment Chief,
DLA Demand and Supply Planning Process Owner, DLA Demand and Supply Planning Process
Lead, Headquarters DLA Requirements Team Chief. At DLA Land and Maritime, his positions
included: Deputy Director of Enterprise Business Systems, Acquisition and Materiel Management
Chief, Program Support Unit Chief, Logistics Programs Division Branch Chief, Systems
Development Team Chief, Distribution Systems Analyst, Requirements Systems Analyst, and Item
Management Specialist.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the Ohio State University, graduated
from the United States Air Force’s Air War College, and completed the Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government Executive Leadership Series.
Over his career, Scott has received many awards, including the DLA Director’s Award for
Organizational Excellence, DLA Scissors Award, Federal Executive Association Reinvention
Recognition Award, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, DoD Honorary Value Engineering Achievement
Award, DLA Productivity Achievement Award, Finalist/Nominee for President’s Council on
Management Improvement Award, Defense Superior Management Award and the Interagency
Committee on Information Resource Management Award, as well as 17 Special Act or Service
Awards and 10 Sustained Superior Performance Awards.
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Gregory M. Shaffer
Head, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Information Operations Department
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific
Mr. Greg Shaffer was appointed to the Senior Executive Service
in December 2011 as the Head of the Intelligence, Surveillance,
Reconnaissance, and Information Operations (ISR/IO)
Department at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Pacific (SSC Pacific) in San Diego, California. He leads a
diverse and highly technical team of over 600 scientists,
engineers, technical specialists, and administrative staff
members. He is responsible for an annual $400 Million budget
supporting research, development, acquisition, test and
evaluation in the intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and
information operations domains. He is also the Space and Naval
Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) National Competency
Lead for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and
Information Operations, responsible for executing Technical
Authority and developing a Competency-wide workforce of 900,
as well as setting the strategic direction of the Competency to address critical Navy needs in ISR
and IO. Mr. Shaffer began his federal career in 1990 as a software engineer in the Anti-Submarine
Warfare Fire Control System program for the undersea warfare community at SSC Pacific’s
predecessor organization, the Naval Ocean Systems Center. He has led a variety of technical
projects developing innovative capabilities for the Navy, Special Operations, and the Intelligence
Community. He has led the technical development of several capabilities supporting National
Systems.
In April 2005, Mr. Shaffer was selected as the Manager of the Information Operations Division at
SSC Pacific. The Division focuses on basic research and emerging technologies used in maritime
surveillance, signals processing and exploitation, data correlation and fusion, electronic warfare,
information operations, and military deception for a variety of Navy, Joint, National, and
Intelligence Community sponsors. In September 2008, Mr. Shaffer was selected as the Deputy
Department Head for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Information Operations
Department.
Mr. Shaffer received a master’s of science in software engineering from National University in
1990 and a bachelor’s of science in computer science from San Diego State University in 1998. He
received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2010.
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J. Terry Simpson
Chief Technology Officer and Enterprise Information Management Officer
Headquarters, Marine Corps Intelligence Department
Mr. Terry Simpson serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and
Enterprise Information Management Officer (EIMO), Headquarters
Marine Corps Intelligence Department. As a Defense Intelligence
Senior Level Executive (DISL), he is the senior technical advisor to the
USMC Director of Intelligence and to the entire Marine Corps
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISR-E)
regarding the application of technology to enhance mission capabilities
across the spectrum of intelligence operations. Mr. Simpson also
plans, directs, and oversees the Marine Corps’ intelligence information
management responsibilities in support of war fighters and decision
makers.
Mr. Simpson’s distinguished career spans more than 22 years as a
technology and acquisition leader within DOD and the Department of
the Navy. He most recently was the Navy's Principal Deputy for
Intelligence at Program Executive Office for Command, Control,
Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) where he served as the Navy’s principal
advisor for intelligence systems acquisition activities. Mr. Simpson guided the Navy’s portfolio of
transformational ISR, IO and METOC capabilities to meet operational requirements; and partnered with
the greater DoD Intelligence Community to develop the Navy’s intelligence and acquisition workforce.
Previously Mr. Simpson managed the Command & Control (C2) Engineering and Navigation, and
Enterprise C2 Engineering Divisions at SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic), responsible
for directing the operations of these $200 million, 180+ employee engineering organizations.
Additionally, he previously served as the Communication Systems Department Business Deputy at SSC
Atlantic, where he was responsible for business planning and operations. Prior to that, Mr. Simpson
established and managed SPAWAR's European Office in Stuttgart, Germany, with responsibility for the
overall leadership and management of SPAWAR's technical, operational, business and programmatic
efforts across the theater. Mr. Simpson joined SPAWAR in 1995 as an engineer in the Intelligence and
Information Warfare Systems Department, and subsequently served as Head of the Intelligence Special
Projects Engineering Branch, chartered with supporting a wide range of intelligence and special
communication program efforts.
Mr. Simpson began his professional engineering career at the National Security Agency (NSA), where
he gained broad engineering and program management experience in the Information Assurance (IA)
and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) mission areas. Mr. Simpson holds a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from
Clemson University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Senior
Executive Fellows program and the Federal Executive Institute.
Mr. Simpson is a DAWIA Level 3 Certified Acquisition Program Manager, a member of DOD's
Acquisition Professional Community, and a NSA Certified Cryptologic Engineer.
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Dr. Laura Stubbs
Director, Science and Technology Initiatives
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
Dr. Laura Stubbs, a member of the Senior Executive Service, was
appointed as the Director, for Science and Technology Initiatives in
December, 2011. Her prior appointment was as the Director,
Requirements and Strategic Integration, effective July, 2010. RSI was
responsible for strategic planning, internal communications,
performance and information management, legal policy, and oversight
of congressionally mandated programs affecting the readiness and wellbeing of the U.S. armed forces. Both appointments are in the Office of
the Secretary of Defense.
Dr. Stubbs entered the U.S. Navy as the first African-American Naval
Nuclear Power School instructor. She later transferred to the US Naval
Academy as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering
Department. She left active duty but continued service in the Navy
Reserve qualifying as an Engineering Duty Officer specializing in life
cycle management of ships and ships systems. She is now retired.
Before assuming her current role, Dr. Stubbs was also the Chief Learning Officer for the Carderock Division
at the Naval Surface Warfare Center where she provided the overarching strategy for technical learning and
workforce development initiatives for 3200 employees. Prior to that position, she was the Branch Head for
the Machinery Science and Technology Group where she led a team of engineers and scientists to develop
cutting edge upstream technologies for the Navy.
With a proven track record of success, from 2006-2009, Dr. Stubbs was recalled to active duty by the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs as a Human Capital and Lean Six Sigma
Deployment Champion. She developed, implemented and promoted the use of process improvement
practices to better implement the Department of Navy human capital strategy and total force planning
management policies. Upon leaving active duty, she returned to the Naval Surface Warfare Center,
Carderock Division as a Process Improvement Specialist and Master Black Belt.
No stranger to private industry, Dr. Stubbs previously worked at Procter and Gamble where she held key
leadership positions. She organized and implemented one of the most complicated logistics, customs,
importing and exporting programs leading teams in the delivery of key global materials and in the successful
launch of a new, global product simultaneously on four continents.
Dr. Stubbs earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. She
received both the B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the
University of Pennsylvania. She has been an adjunct professor with the Fels School of Government at the
University of Pennsylvania where she taught a class on Program Management.
Dr. Stubbs has received numerous awards including the Women of Color Special Recognition Award for her
work in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) (November 2011), the Living Legend Award
from the University of Pennsylvania Black Alumni Society (September 2010), the Meritorious Service
Medal for her work in ASN(M&RA) (September, 2009), the DoD STEM Role Model Award (March, 2006)
and the VADM Samuel Gravely Award, bestowed by the Carderock Division, for achievement in equity and
diversity (June, 2006).
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Angie L. Tymofichuk
Director, Engineering and Technical Management Directorate
Ogden Air Logistics Center
Ms. Angie L. Tymofichuk, a member of the Senior Executive
Service, is the Director of the Engineering Directorate, Ogden
Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. She is
responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight
of the technical policies and processes as well as the overall
scientific and engineering expertise for the Ogden Air Logistics
Center. She is the Center’s senior engineering manager and
provides executive leadership and technical direction to an
engineering and scientific workforce of more than 1,078 science
and engineering professionals supporting the Center's mission.
Ms. Tymofichuk began her career in 1990 as a Palace Acquire
intern at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, where she worked as a physicist in the Nonlinear
Optics Laboratory. In 1997 she moved to Kirtland Air Force
Base, where she teamed with NASA and other Air Force laboratories to develop leading edge
optical coating technologies. While at Kirtland she became a test manager for the Airborne Laser
program and oversaw the development of that program’s Integrated Test Plan and its Test &
Evaluation Master Plan. While with ABL she also served as a crew member on a Congressionallymandated deployment to the Middle East to determine the potential atmospheric effects on laser
characteristics and propagation.
Ms. Tymofichuk has extensive expertise in managing test resources and policy. While at
Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command she served as the Command’s program element
manager for over $1 billion of developmental test infrastructure. She later served as the lead analyst
for 15 test & evaluation program elements across the Department of Defense valued at over $3.3
billion. Her efforts resulted in the establishment of consistent guidelines for interpreting test policy
and budget exhibits across all services. She has been a member of the International Test &
Evaluation Association since 1998.
EDUCATION
BS in Physics and Mathematics, Northern Kentucky University, KC 1990
MS in Optical Science, University of Arizona, AZ, 1993
MS in National Resource Management, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 2005
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Randall G. Walden
Director for Information Dominance Programs
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
Randall G. Walden, a member of the Senior Executive Service,
is the Director for Information Dominance Programs, Office of
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition,
Washington, D.C. He is responsible for planning and
programming all acquisition and modernization activities for Air
Force command, control, communications, computers,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs. He
guides development of program management directives,
acquisition strategies, budget submissions, congressional
testimony and international acquisition programs. He advocates
acquisition program strategies for reconnaissance and
surveillance aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, command and
control and combat support systems, evolving C4ISR
infrastructure, net-centric operations and information warfare
programs. Mr. Walden also provides Secretary of the Air Force
direction and guidance for combat C4ISR systems and architectures to the Air Staff, the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and Congress. He directs activities for five C4ISR
divisions.
Mr. Walden graduated from Christopher Newport College, Newport News, VA, in 1982. He was
commissioned in the U.S. Air Force the same year and served as a flight test engineer with Air
Force Material Command at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD,
and Nellis AFB, NV. During his tours as a flight test engineer, Mr. Walden participated in the
development, ground and flight-testing of numerous aerospace weapon systems. He holds a master
non-rated aircrew badge.
Mr. Walden retired from active duty in 2002 with more than 20 years of military experience as an
acquisition and technical professional. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2002,
serving in the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office as the Deputy and Technical Director prior to his
current position.
EDUCATION
BS in mathematics, Christopher Newport College, Newport News, VA, 1982
BS in Aerospace Engineering, Parks College of St. Louis University, Cahokia, IL, 1984
Flight Test Engineer Course, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, CA, 1987
Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL, 1989
MS in Engineering Management, Florida Institute of Technology, Patuxent River, MD, 1991
Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence, 1996
Advanced Program Manager Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA,
1997
Senior Executive Service Seminar, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL, 2003
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Jennifer Walsh
Principal Director, Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Jennifer Walsh serves as the Principal Director for Russia, Ukraine,
and Eurasia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy.
Ms. Walsh entered federal government service in 1996 in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). Her OSD Policy
experience includes assignments in Plans, Support to Public
Diplomacy, Strategy, European Policy, Asia-Pacific Policy,
Technology Security Policy & Counter-Proliferation, and the
Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA).
Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Ms. Walsh served as J.
William Fulbright Scholar to Sweden and worked as a policy analyst for the Southern Governors’
Association in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Walsh is a graduate of the National War College at the National Defense University. She
earned a Master of Public Affairs degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of
Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Louisiana Scholars’ College at
Northwestern State University.
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Kathy L. Watern
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cost and Economics
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller
Kathy L. Watern, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cost and Economics,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial
Management and Comptroller, Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Watern is responsible for assisting the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Cost and Economics) in directing
and supervising Air Force cost, economic and business case
analysis. She assists the Deputy Assistant Secretary in
managing the activities of the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency
(AFCAA), and is Deputy Chair of the Air Force Cost Analysis
Improvement Group.
Mrs. Watern began her career in private industry. Prior to her
current position, she worked as the Director, Cost and
Economics Analysis Division, Financial Management and
Comptroller Directorate, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.
EDUCATION
BS in Accounting, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1981
MS in Administration, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1984
MS in National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, DC, 2000
Leadership for a Democratic Society, Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA, 2001
Civilian Advanced Management Program--Center for Creative Leadership Colorado Springs, CO;
Stanford Executive Education, Palo Alto, CA; Darden Business School Charlottesville, VA, 20022003
Defense Leadership and Management Program Graduate, Washington, DC, 2008
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Davis S. Welch
Deputy Director and Senior Advisor, Army Budget
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Davis S. Welch serves as the Deputy Director and Senior
Advisor, Army Budget, with key responsibilities for managerial
oversight of the Army’s $196 billion budget. Major duties
include developing and presenting budget estimates to OSD,
OMB, and the Congress; oversight of congressional liaison with
the appropriations committees; coordination with OSD, OMB,
Department of Treasury, and Congress on all current and budget
year issues; and overall funds control management of the Army’s
approximately 30 active appropriations. He also serves as the
senior civilian for the Army-wide budget career field and senior
civilian personnel advisor to the Director, Army Budget, and
Military Deputy for Budget to the Assistant Secretary (Financial
Management and Comptroller).
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
• July 2009 – February 2012: Director of Investment, Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, D.C.
• September 2007 – July 2009: Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Herndon, VA
• June 2005 – August 2007: Principal Deputy to the Assistant Chief of Staff, Resource
Management, Army Materiel Command, Fort Belvoir, VA. Retired from Active Duty at the
rank of Colonel following 28 years
• August 2004 – June 2005: Army Fellow, Foreign Studies Policy Program, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C.
• December 2001 – August 2004: Deputy Director, Management Control, Army Budget
Office, Pentagon, Washington D.C.
• July 1999 – November 2001: Senior Budget Analyst, Army Budget Office, Pentagon,
Washington, D.C.
• June 1995 – June 1999: Resource Management Officer, Comptroller, 1st Armored Division,
Bad Kreuznach, Germany and Tuzla, Bosnia
• June 1979 – June 1995: Leadership and staff positions world-wide
COLLEGE
• MBA, Business Administration, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
• BS, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
SIGNIFICANT TRAINING
• Federal Executive Institute, Leadership in a Democratic Society
• U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
• Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Courses
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