SEASONof CHANGE ASA(ALT) set for new leadership N
ew leadership appears set to take charge of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (OASA(ALT)) before year’s end, with a new prin-
cipal deputy ASA(ALT) already on board.
As of this writing, the Senate is considering the administra- tion’s Oct. 5 nomination of Dr. Bruce D. Jette to be the next ASA(ALT). Jette had a confirmation hearing Nov. 9 before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in which he pledged to
“work tirelessly to truly make a more effective acquisition system that meets current, emerging and long-term operational needs; [and] helps us leap back into an overmatch position, and do so in a timely manner.”
Jette, the founder, president and CEO of management and tech- nical consulting company Synovision Solutions LLC, played an early role in rapid acquisition for the Army. In May 2002, as an Army colonel, he told the Senate committee, he formed a small team that integrated robots developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with government and commercial off-the-shelf items and fielded them within a month for deploy- ment in caves in Afghanistan “rather than sending [in] Soldiers with grappling hooks and grenades.” He became the first direc- tor of the Rapid Equipping Force, established later that year, which introduced to the Army its first enduring model of rapid acquisition.
A 1976 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Jette served in the Army for 28 years, and developed an operational perspective on the evolving threats to the U.S. military and the inadequacies of the Army acquisition system to address them. He also served as strategic science adviser to the chief of staff of the Army, senior research officer in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and brigade and battalion opera- tions officer in numerous Army units in the U.S. and Germany. “Te Army is replete with dedicated, talented people,” Jette said
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Jette holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in electronic materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in nuclear engineering and chemistry from West Point. Among his honors, Jette was named the 1996 Acquisition Product Manager of the Year.
Pending Senate confirmation of a permanent ASA(ALT), Jeffrey S. White leads the organization in an acting capacity. White was appointed Nov. 6 as principal deputy to the ASA(ALT). As act- ing ASA(ALT), he is also serving as Army acquisition executive and senior procurement executive. White, who was appointed in November to the Senior Executive Service (SES), is a retired Army colonel who most recently was vice president of business development for Siemens Government Technologies Inc., one of several leadership positions he has held in the company.
He was also the assistant deputy undersecretary of the Army from October 2006 to October 2011, leading initiatives toward greater efficiencies, business transformation, deployment of Lean Six Sigma and strategic human capital programs. White holds an MBA from the University of Tennessee, a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College and a B.A. in psychology from Shippensburg State Col- lege. (For more detail on White, see “On the Move,” Page 262.)
White replaced Steffanie B. Easter as acting ASA(ALT). Eas- ter remains with the organization as special assistant to the ASA(ALT) and has assumed the temporary role of senior official performing the duties of the principal deputy ASA(AL&T), a role that’s familiar for her.
in his Senate confirmation statement. “Tey need senior leader- ship guidance, encouragement and reassurance to be innovative, understand and accept responsibility and reduce a risk-averse culture.”
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