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Improving the Performance of the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise Through Analysis Moderator
Michael K. Williams, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA) and United States Transportation Command Joint Distribution Process Analysis Center (JDPAC). He is responsible for providing the U.S. Transportation Command and the Department of Defense with the technology application, research, engineering and analytical expertise to improve the deployability and sustainment of the United States Armed Forces. Mr. Williams served in a number of key positions at SDDCTEA beginning in 1987. As Team Chief, Senior Engineer, he had overall responsibility for the Army’s Virtual Proving Ground – Transportability (VPG-T) program and served as the transportability engineering consultant for the Army’s Advanced Land Combat Thrust Panel and the Training and Doctrine Command Battle Labs. He also provided engineering support to such programs as the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Light Armored Vehicle, and Armored Gun System. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Williams served as Chief of the Deployability Division. As the expert consultant on deployability engineering for Army force modernization, he provided deployment engineering analyses to support USTRANSCOM and the Warfighting Combatant Commands time-phased force deployment data development, and conducted transportation infrastructure analyses to support power projection. In addition, Mr. Williams was responsible for providing deployment modeling, simulation and analysis support to OSD (PA&E), Joint Staff, USTRANSCOM, and Army Staff for programmatic studies and oversaw the implementation of the DOD Engineering for Transportability Program. Mr. Williams was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in October 2007. EDUCATION: 1983 Bachelor of Science in General Engineering, United States Military Academy AWARDS AND HONORS: 1987, 1990 – SDDCTEA Employee of the Year Panelist
Executive Director, MIT-Center for Transportation & Logistics Panelist
Lt Col Jean Mahan is currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait at the CENTCOM Distribution Deployment Operations Center. As Chief of Operations Integration, she provides analytical support to a wide variety of projects to include the $400M Theater Express Airlift Program and other Commercialization Initiatives underway supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and GEN Petraeus’ “Iraqi First” Policy and the return to normalcy in Iraq. Lt Col Mahan has been the focal point to establishing a firm reach-back program from the CENTCOM DDOC to the Joint Distribution Process Analysis Center (JDPAC). This reach-back effort has already produced a “Connecting the Pipes” study and the establishment of new metrics to measure intra-theater airlift performance through the warfighter’s eyes with an analysis campaign to measure “What the Warfighter Feels” to provide critical feedback for the future of the commercial Theater Express program. Back at Scott Air Force Base, Lt Col Mahan is a Deployment and Distribution Operations Center Chief at USTRANSCOM responsible for 90 joint action officers, acting as the Commander’s focal point for communication on the execution of current operations. When not in uniform, Dr. Jean Mahan acts as the technical lead for the USTRANSCOM’s JDPAC. She and her team are responsible for providing Operations Research expertise, modeling and simulation support, and analytical study support for process improvement efforts and programmatic and congressional studies. Prior to deploying, Lt Col Mahan led a multifunctional team to evaluate the opportunities and benefits of establishing a Joint Shipment Manager (JSM) for the island of Oahu. Her distribution analysis team provides the ongoing Integrated Distribution Lane (IDL) analysis and rigor for the monthly review of distribution performance for each COCOM. Dr. Mahan has more than 21 years of experience in military operations research analysis, with the last 14 years being spent in Air Mobility Command and USTRANSCOM leading a variety of Departmental study efforts. In the beginning of the war, her independent look at Kuwait and Iraq throughput issues for CENTCOM and TCJ3 made her the analyst of choice for operational analysis. Today, Dr. Mahan is a veteran in the mobility modeling business having participated in every major DoD mobility study since 1994 to include the Mobility Requirements Study series. Prior to joining the mobility and distribution community, she spent three years analyzing tactics and weapons effectiveness in a fighter weapon squadron. Her Masters and PhD degrees are in Operations Research and are from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Panelist
Mr. Petrina is the Director of the DLA Office of DORRA was founded in the late 1970s to provide DLA managers with a unique in-house analytic capability. DORRA performs research and analysis to enable DLA and DoD organizations to objectively formulate policies and make informed decisions. Combining talented employees, experience, contractors, computers, software and data into quality analytical products has become DORRA’s trademark. Mr. Petrina was born in Buffalo, N.Y. and raised in Aiken, S.C. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1970 where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. At that time he was commissioned into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and entered active duty as a second lieutenant. In his twenty-two year military career, Mr. Petrina served two long tours with the U.S. Army Europe, a short tour in Cakmakli, Turkey, and in 1978 deployed from Ft. Carson, Colorado to Germany on REFORGER as the Commander, A Company, 4th Engineer Battalion, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized). He also commanded A Company, 52nd Engineering Battalion (Combat Heavy) while stationed at Ft. Carson. He also served as a personnel, operations, logistics and maintenance officer in various units. In 1979 the U.S. Army sent him to Pennsylvania State University where he received a Masters of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. He has been a Registered Professional Engineer since 1981. Mr. Petrina began his civil service career in 1992 as the Chief of Engineering for the Depot Operations Support Office (DOSO), which was a Management Support Activity of DLA Headquarters. He also served as the Deputy and the Director of DOSO. In 1997 Mr. Petrina transferred to Defense Supply Center, Richmond (DSCR) serving as the Director of Installation Services, responsible for facility engineering, equipment maintenance and administrative services for the center and its tenant activities. In March 2001, Mr. Petrina was reassigned as the Director of Information Resources for DSCR. As the CIO for DSCR he was responsible for all computer operations supporting 3000 employees, tenants and contractors, including their 20,000 square-foot computer room, the LAN, WAN and over a 100 mid-tier servers. He served in that position until September 1, 2002 when he became the Director of DORRA. Panelist
Marc Robbins is a senior management scientist working in RAND Arroyo Center's Military Logistics program. In the previous year he led one project for HQDA G-4, Implementing the Ideal Supply Chain Structure and co-led a project for the Defense Distribution Center, Analytic Support for Strategic Planning at DDC. His current work is focused primarily on continuing support to G-4 in its efforts to enhance and ensure effective supply chain performance for deployed forces. Last year, he finished another project titled Matching DLA Capacity to Contingency Demands aimed at helping the Defense Distribution Center prepare for workload surges in possible future contingencies. In 2003-2004 he was a co-leader (with Eric Peltz) on Logistics in Operation Iraqi Freedom, sponsored by the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (G-4), which sought to produce an authoritative account of problems and successes in supporting Army forces engaged in that conflict. From 2000-2005 he led the project Supporting the US Transportation Command/Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Program, sponsored by US TRANSCOM and DLA and aimed at increasing the cost-effectiveness of the worldwide DoD distribution system. Earlier, Marc was involved as a project leader in helping implementation of the Army's Velocity Management logistics process improvement initiative and the Marine Corps' similar Precision Logistics program. In his 20-year career at RAND, Marc has worked principally on Army logistics projects. He has led studies aimed at helping the Army's logistics system cope with the acquisition of a new generation of high-tech weapons like the M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank and the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. In addition, he has helped develop decision support tools and management information systems for the Army and contributed to a Congressionally-mandated study of the Army's proposed reconnaissance/attack helicopter, the RAH-66 Comanche. He has participated or led studies on Army logistic performance in its 1990s operations (Just Cause, Desert Storm, and Restore Hope) and analyzed the execution of strategic lift in Operation Desert Shield. He has also led projects examining the potential for improving the skills of public transit maintenance workforces and in helping the nation's public transit fleets to adopt innovative maintenance strategies. From 1994-2003 Marc was the Associate Director of the Arroyo Center Military Logistics Program. Prior to coming to RAND in 1985, Marc received his Ph.D. in politics and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and taught political science at the University of California, Irvine.
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DR. CHRIS CAPLICE
Col (SEL) JEAN MAHAN
GLENN J. PETRINA, P. E. 