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DR. MARK A. GALLAGHER
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Dr. Mark A. Gallagher, a Senior Level executive, is the Technical Director, Studies and Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. This directorate conducts analyses for both the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force that ensures comprehensive, defendable and time-sensitive processes underpin Air Force warfighting and force structure capability and sufficiency assessments. The directorate also informs and illuminates leadership on emerging issues; fireproofs resource investment decisions; and rapidly collects, disseminates, implements and tracks lessons learned.
Dr. Gallagher entered the Air Force in 1983 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation) and at U.S. Strategic Command. He retired after 20 years of military service. Dr. Gallagher entered civil service in 2003 and has served as Chief of Analysis Management Division and Chief of Missile Defense and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities Division at U.S. Strategic Command. In 2007, he became the Deputy Director, Resource Analysis Directorate, Studies and Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned. Dr. Gallagher founded and chaired the Information Operations Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manual for four years. In this position, he established the process and had three information operations planning tools accredited by all the military services.
EDUCATION
1983 Bachelor of Science degree in operations research and computer science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
1986 Master of Science degree in operations research, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1987 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
1992 Doctor of Philosophy degree in operations research, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
1995 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
2006 Air War College, by correspondence
2006 Senior Executive Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
2009 Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership, San Diego, Calif.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. July 1983 - April 1984, student, undergraduate pilot training, Reese AFB, Texas
2. April 1984 - May 1985, life cycle cost analyst, Aeronautical System Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
3. May 1985 - December 1987, graduate student, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
4. January 1988 - September 1989, Chief, Scientific Assessment Branch, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
5. September 1989 - October 1992, doctoral student, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
6. November 1992 - September 1995, cost analyst, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation and Cost Analysis Improvement Group, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
7. September 1995 - November 1998, Chief Scientist, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
8. November 1998 - June 2001, Associate Professor of Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
9. July 2001 - July 2003, Chief, Information Operations Analysis Branch, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
10. July 2003 - November 2004, senior scientist and technical adviser, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
11. November 2004 - July 2005, Chief, Analysis Management Division (J82), U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
12. July 2005 - August 2007, Deputy Chief, later, Chief of Missile Defense and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities Division (J85), U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
13. September 2007 - May 2009, Deputy Director, Resource Analysis Directorate, Studies and Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned (A9), Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
14. May 2009 - present, Technical Director, Studies and Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned (A9), Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
1989 Outstanding intelligence Contributor, Strategic Air Command
1990 and 1995 Barchi Prize, Military Operations Research Society
1994 Best Paper Award, Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis
1998 Field Grade Analyst of the Year, Air Force Analytic Community
2002 and 2003 Rist Prize, Military Operations Research Society
2006 Outstanding graduate, Air War College
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Vice President, Society Services of the Military Operations Research Society
PUBLICATIONS
Co-author, "Weibull-based Forecasting of R&D Programs," Journal of Cost Analysis and Management, Special Issue, Winter 2002, pp. 41-54
Co-author, "Assigning Nuclear Weapons with Reactive Tabu Search," Military Operations Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2003, pp. 57-69
Co-author, "Modeling Military Strategic Effects with an Input-Output Metamodel," Military Operations Research, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004, pp. 19-32
Co-author, "R&D Budget-Driven Cost and Schedule Overruns," Journal of Cost Analysis and Management, Summer 2004, pp. 80-97
Co-author, "Modeling Defense Budget Relationships with an Input-Output Model," Journal of Cost Analysis and Management, Summer 2004, pp. 1-13
Co-author, "Probability Distribution Function for Damage Expectancy" Military Operations Research, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2004, pp. 5-15
Co-author, "Revised R&D Budgets for Funding Postponements," Journal of Cost Analysis and Management, Winter 2004, pp. 58-78
Co-author, "Input-Output Modeling for Assessing Cascading Effects," Military Operations Research, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2005, pp. 5-17
Co-author, "Defining Effects for Probabilistic Modeling," Military Operations Research Vol. 13, No. 4, 2008, pp. 5- 18
(Current as of September 2009)
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