Martin (Marty) J. Schoenbauer is the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Operations in NNSA's Office of Defense Programs. Schoenbauer assists the Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs in directing the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which is responsible for maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.  The NNSA’s nuclear weapons complex includes three national research laboratories, the Nevada Test Site, and four production plants.

Defense Programs oversees the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which employs over 25,000 people around the country.  This approximately $5.2 billion program encompasses operations associated with manufacturing, maintaining, refurbishing, and dismantling the nuclear weapons stockpile.  Defense Programs also provides oversight and direction of the research, development, and engineering support to maintain the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of underground testing, and assures the capability for maintaining the readiness to test and develop new warheads, if required.

Schoenbauer was the Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application and Stockpile Operations (ADAMASO) before being asked in July 2005 to act as the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application and then to be the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Operations.  He has over 30 years of government service in leadership positions and has been assigned to Defense Programs since July 1993.  He began his Department of Energy career as the Weapons Dismantlement Program Manager and held various team leader positions in stockpile support functions through the 1990s.  He assumed the position of Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile in May 2000, and in May 2001, he was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service and assumed the duties as Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Surety and Quality.  In July 2002, he assumed the position of Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile.  In these roles, Schoenbauer worked closely with the production sites and the national laboratories to implement production activities in the Stockpile Stewardship Program, performed an oversight role for the Transportation Safeguards System, directed the Enhanced Surveillance program, managed the resolution of several Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Recommendations and led Nuclear Explosive and Quality Control functions and Defense Programs activities associated with arms control treaty development.

In July 2004 he was named as Acting ADAMASO and was appointed as ADAMASO in December 2004.  He is the Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council Standing and Safety Committee and a co-chair of the Stockpile Transformation Coordinating Committee.  In these positions he has played a key role in the development and approval of the Reliable Replacement Warhead program as the means for transforming the nuclear weapons stockpile and providing a long-term credible nuclear deterrent.

Schoenbauer graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 with a BS and completed his MBA at George Washington University in 1982.  He is married to Jan Schoenbauer.  The Schoenbauers have two boys, Peter and Joseph, who have graduated from college.