leads strategic direction and financial op- erations as well as regional support to the division’s Regional Business Center. He also serves as a representative to the Na- tional Management Board responsible for establishing policy and guidance. TAD provides USACE construction, engineer- ing and project management support for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), a unified combatant command within the Department of Defense. CENTCOM's area of responsibility includes countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, most notably Afghani- stan and Iraq. Overseeing thousands of Army Corps projects, TAD also provides regional support, including the Afghan National Security Forces, United States and Coalition Forces, Counter Narcotics and Border Management, Strategic Re- construction support to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the commander's Emergency Response Program. Booker graduated from North Carolina A & T State University with a bachelor of science degree and a master of science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.
THEODORE “TAB” BROWN, P.E. Chief of Planning and Policy Headquarters
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Since January 2009, Theodore Brown has served as chief of planning and policy, also serving as the leader of the Mississippi Valley Division Regional Integration Team in Headquarters. In this capacity, he provides leadership and oversight for coastal Louisiana post- Katrina reconstruction and planning. He formulates and coordinates Army Civil Works policy with the Department of Army and the Office of Management and Budget; serves as the executive liaison for the Chief's Environmental Advisory Board, and provides representation to federal advisory committees. He is responsible for leading efforts in imple- mentation of the 2007 Water Resources Development Act. He serves as the prin- cipal Civil Works point of contact with congressional authorizing committees on policy and planning matters. He earned a bachelor of science degree from Ohio State University and a master of busi- ness administration degree from Marshall University.
JAMES DALTON, P.E.
Chief of the Engineering and Construction Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
James Dalton was selected to the Se- nior Executive Service in January 2005. He is responsible for policy, program and technical expertise in the execution of 10 billion design and construction programs for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, De- partment of Defense, other federal agen- cies and more than 60 foreign nations. He provides leadership to a field organiza- tion consisting of eight divisions, 41 districts and approximately 15,000 per- sonnel. He also guides the development of engineering and construction policy for the Corps' civil works, military and environmental missions. He also serves as the Corps South Atlantic Division regional integration team leader. From July 2005 to May 2007, Dalton served as regional business director for the South Atlantic Division in Atlanta He served as director of business management for the Gulf Region Division in Baghdad, Iraq, from January to July 2005. Dalton managed the regional operating budget and provided executive leadership in executing the financial management program. He earned a bachelor of science degree from North Carolina A & T State University and a master of science degree from North Carolina State University.
MONIQUE FERRELL Deputy Auditor General
Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Training Audits
Monique Ferrell was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and deputy auditor general Nov. 20, 2011. She has more than 26 years in the federal service with the U.S. Army Audit Agency. As deputy auditor general for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Training Audits, Ferrell is principal adviser to the auditor general on auditing the Army’s major areas of human capital, force protection, force structure and training. Her respon- sibilities also include directing Army- wide audit coverage of high-risk areas that focus on theater deployment and sustainment (combat logistics planning, mobilization and demobilization logis- tics, theater and inter-theater transporta- tion, storage and disposal and combat service support activities), the Logistics Civil Augmentation program and contin- gency contracting and contractors on the battlefield. She exercises operational con- trol over four field offices in southwest Asia. She earned a bachelor of science
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MITCHELL HOWELL
Deputy Director for Rapid Acquisition and Technology
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
Mitchell Howell is responsible for developing and implementing materiel and non-materiels to prevent illicit use of the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) as a weapon of strategic influence. He has oversight of all acquisition functions undertaken by Joint Improvised Explo- sive Device Defeat Organization’s three lines of operation (Attack the Network, Defeat the Device and Train the Force) to perform the counter-IED mission. These functions include technology assessment, application, test and evaluation, rapid ac- quisition policy and execution, program management and contracting operations. Howell has a bachelor of science degree from Florida Institute of Technology, another from Central Michigan Univer- sity and a third from the U.S. Military Academy.
TOMMY MARKS Executive Director for Acquisition Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
Tommy Marks was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in January 2011. Until November 2012, he served as executive director for the Logistics Civil Aug- mentation Program (LOG- CAP).
In this position, Marks had executive responsibility for LOGCAP, under which contractors from the private sector are used to provide a broad range of logisti- cal and life support services to U.S. and Allied Forces during combat and training operations. In addition to these responsi- bilities, he was principal interface for all LOGCAP operations within the federal government and Congress. In his new position as the executive director for acquisition services in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acqui-
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