Biography

Stuart A. Hazlett

Deputy Director for Strategic Sourcing

Defense Procurement

Stuart A. Hazlett, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is a Deputy Director to the Director, Defense Procurement (DPAP). As the lead for the Strategic Sourcing Directorate, he serves as an advisor to the Director and his staff on matters relating to policy and processes that impact the sourcing of goods and services across the Department of Defense. As champions of strategic sourcing, Mr. Hazlett and his staff identify opportunities for improvement and provide recommendations that may result in policy and process development, improvement, or elimination. In collaboration with the DPAP staff and DoD departments and agencies, the directorate facilitates solutions that permit the department to take best advantage of strategic sourcing. Mr. Hazlett serves as the Chair of the Strategic Sourcing Directors Board (SSDB) and the department's representative to the Federal Chief Acquisition Officer Council Strategic Sourcing Working Group.

Before taking his current position, Mr. Hazlett was the Chief of Procurement Transformation, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, where he was charged with improving agile sourcing in the Air Force. His office developed and maintained a strategic management framework to identify, develop, and field strategic initiatives to support a contracting enterprise responsible for executing $61B annually. Mr. Hazlett entered federal service in 1984 as a Pacer Produce assigned to the San Antonio Air Logistics Center at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas. He has led organizations and held contracting officer warrants in the areas of research and development, systems, and sustainment acquisitions in support of numerous major weapon systems. During his career, he has also served in direct support of congressionally mandated panels dealing with acquisition issues facing the federal government.

Mr. Hazlett holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Northern University and a Master's degree from Central Michigan University. He is also a 1998 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where he earned a second masters degree in national resource management. In addition, he is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College at Fort Belvoir, Senior Executive Fellows Program from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Leadership for a Democratic Society from the Federal Executive Institute.

Mr. Hazlett is a recipient of the Department of the Army Commander's Award for Civilian Service and two Department of the Air Force awards for Meritorious Civilian Service. He is married and has two children.