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Mr. Marshall graduated from Vanderbilt University and received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Program at that university. He also holds master's degrees in financial management from the Naval Postgraduate School and in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Mr. Joseph B. Marshall Jr. was Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller). In this capacity, he assisted in the oversight of budget formulation and execution of over $165 billion annually for the Navy and United States Marine Corps; for the financial systems, reporting, policy and auditing of the associated financial transactions; and for the cost estimating for the Department of the Navy. Prior to this, he was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management &Comptroller), where he provided expertise and advice on programs and initiatives with the goal of improving financial  management functions for the Department of the Navy. He previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller).

Earlier, Mr. Marshall was the Director, Business Support Directorate, Defense Health Agency (DHA), where he had oversight of $40 billion in medical and dental healthcare for more than 9.6 million beneficiaries worldwide. Prior to this position, Mr. Marshall served as the chief financial executive for Navy Medicine and established policy and managed financial and manpower resources for a medical activity totaling more than $6 billion per year in operating costs.

Mr. Marshall entered the Senior Executive Service (SES) in October 2001 and until 2003 he was an Associate Chief Financial Officer at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he formulated financial policy and strategic and performance plans for an enterprise which, were it in the private sector, would be the sixth largest company in the world with 100,000 employees,$123 billion in assets, and over$70 billion in annual spending. In 2003 to 2006, Mr. Marshall was the Deputy Director of the Navy Programming Division on the Chief of Naval Operations staff, where he led the building of the Navy's Program Objective Memorandum (POM),totaling over $120 billion per year.

Before entering the SES, Mr. Marshall was the Comptroller of the United States' Transportation Command, a $5 billion Department of Defense activity. During Mr. Marshall's 25-year Navy career which began in 1976, he had command of a destroyer and was recognized as the most outstanding of 16 ships, twice winning the coveted "Battle E." Additionally, he was recognized repeatedly for his exceptional financial and operational expertise.

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Dr. Christine Hunter brings over 35 years of leadership experience to her current board and advisory roles supporting health care quality, insurance, professional development, and higher education. She proudly serves as an independent board director for WPS Health Solutions and Navy Mutual Aid Association, delivering comprehensive health and life insurance products for Military, Veterans, and seniors.  

Dr. Hunter has a long history of distinguished service in Federal health programs.  On active duty in the Navy, she rose to the rank of Rear Admiral with responsibility for direct healthcare delivery, health system operations, and health plan management. Her key leadership roles included assignments as Deputy Director of the TRICARE Management Activity; Commanding Officer, Naval Medical Center San Diego; Commander, Navy Medicine West; US Pacific Fleet Surgeon; Chief of Staff for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital Bremerton WA.

Upon completing her military career, Dr. Hunter joined the US Office of Personnel Management as Chief Medical Officer for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. In 2016, her work to improve the delivery of quality health care was recognized with a meritorious Presidential Rank Award. Since retiring from public service, she has continued to support quality health outcomes for all Americans as Co-Chair of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Committee on Performance Measurement.

Dr. Hunter is a Distinguished Alumna of Boston University, where she earned her undergraduate and medical degrees. She remains active in higher education as a member of the Boston University President’s Advisory Board, as well as Dean’s Advisory Boards for the Schools of Medicine and Public Health. She is a Governance Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors, a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a 2011 ACP Laureate awardee, and the recipient of numerous military awards.

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Brigadier General Sharon Shaffer retired from the U.S. Air Force in June 2020 after over 30 years of service.  Throughout her career she held numerous leadership positions at the major Command level.  She served as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at Headquarters US Air Forces in Europe, and the Staff Judge Advocate at Air Force Reserve Command, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, and Air Combat Command.  As a renowned litigator and expert in criminal law, General Shaffer also served as a Circuit prosecutor, Circuit defense counsel, and military trial Judge. She has tried over 300 cases.

In 2003, General Shaffer was selected as the first Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Office of Military Commissions and assigned to represent one of the first four detainees charged in the Global War on Terrorism.  For her efforts in defending the rule of law, she was awarded the Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty by the ACLU and the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.

Prior to her retirement, General Shaffer was the Commander of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.  As the Judge Advocate General's Corps’ only G-Series commander, she was responsible for the command and control of a 900-member organization of legal professionals composed of officers, enlisted members, civilian attorneys, paralegals and support staff, operating at 76 locations worldwide. She was also responsible for assisting The Judge Advocate General in the administration of military justice throughout the Air Force, and defending the Air Force in civil litigation before federal and state courts and administrative boards.

General Shaffer received her undergraduate degree in political science and German from Kansas State University and her Juris Doctorate degree from Western Michigan University.  She is licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan, the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the United States Supreme Court.

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Colonel Mayhugh retired from Active Duty on 31 May 2016, with nearly 37 years of service to our nation. Her career spans multiple countries and operations culminating with strategic level assignments with Department of Defense. She enlisted in the US Army Reserves in 1979 with the 343rd Army Security Agency, as an Intelligence Analyst. In 1999, she was selected to join the DCNG Mobilization Augmentee Detachment and promoted to Major. The Mobilization Augmentee Detachment was mobilized and was the first National Guard unit to be mobilized after 9/11 in support of the Global War on Terrorism. In June 2002, MAJ Mayhugh joined the AGR T-10 program, as Executive Officer for NGB-ARP and in March 2003 became Chief of Records Management. She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in June of 2006 and served as Chief, Plans and Programs Branch for the Army National Guard Human Capital Management Division. Subsequently, she was promoted to the rank of Colonel while serving as Inspections Team Chief, Department of the Army Inspector General. COL Mayhugh earned her MBA from Touro University, graduating Cum Laude and her Masters in National Security and Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. In her final assignment, she served as a Special Assistant to the NGB, J-1 as Chief, Joining Community Forces, and NGB. Over the course of her career, she built collaborative, successful and trusted relationships with  senior leaders in Government agencies to support and promote execution of strategic initiatives impacting DoD civilians, Military Members, veterans and families.

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Mr. Alan R. Shaffer served as the former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S). Senate confirmed in January 2019, he is responsible to the Under Secretary of Defense for all matters pertaining to acquisition; contract administration; logistics and materiel readiness; installations and environment; operational energy; chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; the acquisition workforce; and the defense industrial base. 

From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Shaffer served as the Director, NATO Collaboration Support Office in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In this role, he was responsible for coordinating and synchronizing the Science and Technology (S&T) collaboration between NATO member and partner Nations, comprising a network of about 5,000 scientists. Previous to his role at NATO, Mr. Shaffer served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)) from 2007-2015. In this position, Mr. Shaffer was responsible for formulating, planning and reviewing the DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) programs, plans, strategy, priorities, and execution of the DoD RDT&E budget that totals roughly $25 billion per year. He has also served twice as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2007-2009 and 2012-2015. 

Additionally, in 2009, he was appointed as the first Director, Operational Energy, Plans and Programs (Acting). Mr. Shaffer has also served as the Executive Director for several senior DoD Task Forces, including review of all research, acquisition and test activities during the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure. In 2007, he was the Executive Director for the DoD Energy Security Task Force and, from 2007-2012, he served as the Executive Director of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protection (MRAP) Task Force, where he was responsible for oversight and fielding 27,000 MRAPs. 

Before entering the federal government, Mr. Shaffer served a 24-year United States Air Force career in command, weather, intelligence and acquisition oversight with assignments in Utah, California, Ohio, Honduras, Germany, Virginia and Nebraska. His career included deployment to Honduras in the mid-1980s and direct support of the United States Army 3rd Armored Division in Hanau, Germany. During Operation DESERT STORM, he was responsible for deployment of the 500-person theater weather force. Upon retirement from the Air Force in 2000, Mr. Shaffer was appointed to the Senior Executive Service; in 2001, he assumed the position as Director, Plans and Programs, Defense Research and Engineering. 

Mr. Shaffer earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Vermont in 1976, a second Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from the University of Utah, a Master of Science in Meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was awarded the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award in 2004, the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and the Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award in 2007 and 2015. 

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Tim Markle has had a broad array of leadership experience over 10 years at Navy Federal Credit Union and 22 years in Government facility operations, construction, program management, budget development and execution.

He currently holds the position of Assistant Vice President, Business Continuity at Navy Federal Credit Union, providing leadership and direction for Navy Federal’s enterprise business continuity program, overseeing a staff of 12 specialists in a technically complex environment for the largest Credit Union in the world. Prior, he was the Procurement Policy and Strategy Manager, where he directed various improvements to IT systems, creation and implementation of a contract Quality Assurance program, and establishment of numerous standards and processes, and directly managed $144M in construction projects. Before that, he held the position of Design Manager, Branch Operations Department, and served as Regional Manager for 12 branches in the Mid-Atlantic region

During his time with the US Navy, he managed program execution for the Navy’s $3 billion 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Program. Provided oversight and management of 59 Navy Business Plans and 117 major military construction projects. He was recognized for maintaining the program on schedule and within budget despite a tumultuous economic climate in 2008, and repeatedly sought after to provide direct counsel to senior Department of Defense leadership including senior Admiral and Senior Executive Service personnel.

 He also directed the consolidation of 4 separate Navy public works departments in the Pacific Northwest into a single, consolidated unit serving one of the Navy’s largest installations. Executed $350 million in major military construction projects and a $70 million operating budget while simultaneously providing seamless support to Navy missions with an almost zero tolerance for service disruption, including: strategic weapons facilities, the only nuclear-capable shipyard on the West coast, a naval hospital, research and development facilities, the home for 2 aircraft carriers, 10 submarines and numerous other units. He led these groups to overcome cultural barriers, operational and process differences to become a singular unit operating with higher levels of customer satisfaction despite a 10% reduction in personnel and operating budgets.

He holds an M.S. in construction management from Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

He is a licensed & professional civil engineer and is affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Society of American Military Engineers.

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Dale A. Ormond serves as the Chief Engineer for the MITRE DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO)/Defense Information Service Agency(DISA) portfolio where he oversees the technical work planning, execution, and quality of the MITRE work.  Prior to joining MITRE in September 2018, he served as the Director for Science & Technology in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering where he oversaw and coordinated $13B of S&T funding across the Department of Defense ranging from basic to applied engineering for technology development and led the Reliance 21 program, which integrates DoD’s research investments across the military services and defense agencies in 14 critical areas to solve critical technology challenges.

From 2012 to 2014,Mr. Ormond served as the first civilian Director of the US Army Research, Engineering, and Development Command where he led a workforce of 25,000 that annually committed, obligated, and executed over $6B in research funding in seven major research centers with offices and investments around the world.  From 2008 to 2011, he served as the first two-star civilian equivalent Deputy to the Commanding General at the US Combined Arms Center at Ft. Leavenworth where he led the establishment of the Mission Command Center of Excellence. Prior to this in 2004, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Elimination of Chemical Weapons and was also dual hatted for a year as the Director, US Army Chemical Materials Agency, where he was responsible for the safe storage and destruction of the US Chemical Warfare Stockpile to meet US international treaty obligations.

Before becoming a member of the Senior Executive Service, Mr. Ormond was the Site Project Manager at the US Army’s Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Tooele, UT, where he led the safe and environmentally compliant operations at the US’s chemical warfare agent disposal facility incinerating the nation’s largest inventory of chemical warfare agent and munitions and as the Senior Program Manager for the Transuranic, Mixed, and Hazardous Waste Program at DoE Savannah River Site(SRS), where he was instrumental in both the opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM and initiating shipments from SRS.

Mr. Ormond graduated from the United States Naval Academy with Distinction and served in uniform as a nuclear qualified submariner and naval intelligence officer.  He is also a 1998 graduate of Clemson University where he earned an M.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering.  Mr. Ormond has received two US Army Civilian Distinguished Service Medals and in 2008, the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award.

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Dr. Jocelyn Seng is a recently retired Air Force Major General, specializing in all aspects of weapon systems acquisition ranging across science & technology to manufacturing to test & evaluation to sustainment. Dr. Seng’s technical and engineering expertise was gained from a military career and commercial industry experiences. Dr. Seng has concurrently maintained a parallel civilian career, which included over 10 years as a patent-holding research scientist at Owens Corning. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Seng has consulted on national security strategy at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a national security policy think tank. She has a demonstrated record of delivering results in challenging global, military, political, manufacturing, scientific, technology, engineering and corporate environments.

Dr. Seng graduated from Massachusetts Institute for Technology with a bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering and from Stanford University with a doctorate in mechanical engineering. Her technical areas of expertise are in composite materials design, analysis, and manufacturing.

Dr. Seng is also a distinguished graduate from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, now referred to as the Eisenhower School, National Defense University. She is a certified DAWIA Acquisition Professional (Program Management Level III), Six Sigma Black Belt, and Registered Professional Engineer. She holds 4 patents and has over 45 publications. She holds National Association of Corporate Directors Directorship Certification™ (NACD.DC) and is a Battlefield-to-Boardroom Graduate.

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Karen Warack is an executive leader in the National Security sector, having served as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Senior Intelligence Service, an industry executive, and an Air Force officer. She held multiple senior leadership roles at the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  She held senior leadership positions at the Center for Cyber Intelligence, served as the Deputy Director of the Ground Enterprise Directorate at the NRO, and the Director of CIA’s In-Q-Tel Interface Center.

Before joining the CIA, Ms. Warack was an executive with The Boeing Company.  She began her career as a USAF officer, serving as an acquisition manager and systems engineer developing the Global Positioning System (GPS).

She has received numerous executive performance awards and is a recipient of the CIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Director of National Intelligence’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security’s Honorary Gold Medallion.  She has also been recognized for leading multiple teams that received awards for delivering innovative capabilities that improved US national security.

Ms. Warack received her bachelor’s degree in physics with honors from Mount Holyoke College, where she was a ROTC Distinguished Graduate and received a U.S. Air Force regular commission.  She subsequently obtained a Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

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