Providing a range of services, including support for legacy systems and development of advanced capabilities.
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01 — Core Capability
Program Management
Effective program management starts with knowing what the requirement actually is — and knowing when you need to deviate from guidance and how to defend that position. I bring structured acquisition experience across the Defense Acquisition System, balancing cost, schedule, and performance without allowing any single metric to become a surrogate for strategy. My approach emphasizes clear communication up and down the chain, milestone-based accountability, and a 5-year planning horizon that keeps near-term actions aligned with long-term readiness goals.
The November 2025 Acquisition Transformation Strategy reordered DoD acquisition around a single organizing principle: speed to capability delivery. Portfolio Acquisition Executives now hold concentrated authority, JCIDS is being replaced by streamlined requirements processes, and Middle Tier Acquisition is the preferred pathway for rapid fielding. Effective program management today means operating confidently within the Warfighting Acquisition System — balancing speed with rigor, and keeping the warfighter’s requirement at the center of every decision.
Warfighting Acquisition System & Acquisition Transformation Strategy
FAR, DFARS & Middle Tier Acquisition pathways
Speed-to-capability & milestone decision-making
Cross-agency coordination & portfolio resource management
02 — Core Capability
Product Support
Capability installed on a ship is not real and relevant until Sailors know how to use it, how to maintain it, and how to restore it in combat. That principle drives everything I do in product support. I focus on ensuring technical information, materials, and skills are available at the point of need — without reach-back to shore. My experience spans performance-based logistics, supply chain strategy, and contractor coordination, always with an eye toward maximizing system availability while keeping lifecycle costs honest.
Today’s product support environment is defined by digital engineering integration, AI-enabled decision tools, and a formal requirement for the PSM to implement Digital Product Support — documenting the approach in the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan. DoDI 5000.91 is being updated to codify these requirements. Effective product support management means working across all 12 Integrated Product Support elements with a life-cycle perspective, performance-based strategies, and data-driven analysis that keeps pace with an accelerating acquisition system.
Performance-based life cycle Product Support Strategy (PSS)
Digital Product Support & lifecycle cost optimization
12 IPS Elements & data-driven readiness management
Contractor & inter-agency coordination
03 — Core Capability
Sustainment
Sustainment is where acquisition decisions either pay off or fall short. I’ve seen programs that fulfilled cost and schedule criteria but ultimately undermined operational performance — and I’ve worked to prevent that outcome. Effective sustainment requires proactive planning, equitable data rights, and a clear-eyed understanding of what the warfighter actually needs to maintain capability at sea and in the field. I work across government and commercial equipment, coordinating between agencies and contractors to keep systems ready throughout their lifecycle.
The Regional Sustainment Framework — now in active implementation with guidance published for FY25–28 — is reshaping how sustainment is planned and executed. The strategic shift is from retrograde-and-return to forward-positioned, distributed MRO capability built on allied and partner co-sustainment. For programs with international partners, allied industrial base equities, or contested logistics exposure, effective sustainment planning now requires deliberate RSF alignment from the outset of the product support strategy.
Regional Sustainment Framework & co-sustainment strategy
Contested logistics planning & MRO network design
Performance-based logistics & lifecycle maintenance
Allied & partner industrial base coordination
04 — Core Capability
Training
Training builds the human foundation that all other program investments depend on. I develop and support training products that give operators and maintainers a single authoritative source for what they need to know — from self-guided and virtual formats to hands-on instruction. My focus is on equipping personnel to make sound decisions under pressure, maintain unit cohesion, and sustain organic repair and maintenance capabilities without dependence on shore-based reach-back.
As systems grow more complex and digital engineering changes the maintenance environment, training products must keep pace. Digital Product Support introduces model-based and AI-assisted technical information; operators and maintainers need training built on the same authoritative source of truth as the engineering baseline. Effective training today is designed to reduce reach-back dependency, accelerate qualification timelines, and sustain organic repair capability forward — aligned to the Acquisition Transformation Strategy’s emphasis on delivering capability at speed.
Model-based & digital product support training development
Organic repair capability & reduced reach-back dependency
Decision-making under pressure & unit cohesion
Technical data management & authoritative source alignment
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