Leadership

Pete Potochney
Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Energy, Installations and Environment and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Basing

Peter Potochney began his Department of Defense civilian employment in 1984 as the Deputy Director of the Installations Assistance Office-East, Marietta, GA, responsible for installation management issues. In 1986, he transferred to the Pentagon and worked in both the installation and acquisition management areas. In 1989, he was selected to join the newly formed Base Closure and Utilization Directorate where he first served as an Assistant Director, principally responsible for Navy and Marine Corps issues associated with the selection and implementation of closures and realignments. Mr. Potochney became the Director of the Base Closure office as it completed the 1995 selection process.

In January 1996, after completion of the BRAC 95 selection process, Mr. Potochney became the Director of Housing. In this capacity, his responsibilities included DoD-wide policy development and oversight of issues related to the operation and ownership of both government and private sector housing serving the needs of the military. He also remained responsible for policy development associated with base realignment and closure issues.

In 2002, upon authorization of the BRAC 2005 round, Mr. Potochney became the Director, Base Realignment and Closure, responsible for policy development and oversight of the analysis supporting the BRAC 2005 round. In November 2008, Mr. Potochney was named Director of the newly-formed Basing Directorate. The Directorate is responsible for completion of the BRAC recommendations, U.S. and overseas basing, and real estate.

Mr. Potochney received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ, in 1975 and a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1983.

Mr. Potochney served on active duty in the US Navy, receiving his commission from Officer Candidate School in 1976. His active duty service included afloat tours as the Supply Officer of two destroyers. Additionally, he served as the Assistant Director of Contracts, Defense Contract Management Area, Hartford, CT, and as a Logistics Plans Officer on the staff of the U.S. Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, Honolulu, HI.

Mr. Potochney resides in Springfield, VA, with his wife.

Current as of March 21, 2015.

Maureen Sullivan
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment, Safety & Occupational Health)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
Energy, Installations and Environment

Ms. Sullivan is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment, Safety & Occupational Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations & Environment). She is responsible for DoD’s policies and programs related to compliance with environmental laws; management of natural and cultural resources; cleanup of contaminated sites; safety & occupational health; fire and emergency services; green/sustainable buildings; installation emergency management; international environmental compliance and cleanup efforts; climate change adaptation planning; strategic sustainability planning; planning to address emerging contaminants; and international defense environmental cooperation. Ms. Sullivan is also responsible for the DoD Native American program. She oversees the Armed Forces Pest Management Board and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board. Ms. Sullivan is the Department of Defense Federal Preservation Officer and represents the Secretary of Defense on the President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Ms. Sullivan is a member of the General Services Administration’s Green Building Advisory Committee.

She also represents the Department of Defense on the White House Climate and Natural Resources Working Group and the White House Pollinator Task Force.

For the past 23 years, Ms. Sullivan has served in various leadership positions as a member of the Office of the Secretary of Defense environmental staff, and possesses wide ranging experience in numerous DoD environmental programs to include Pollution Prevention, Environmental Compliance, Historic Preservation, and the Clean Air Act.

From 2013 through 2014, Ms. Sullivan served as the DoD member of the Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force. From 2009 to 2012, Ms. Sullivan served as the Department of Defense member of the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. She served as the DoD representative to the Office of Management and Budget Interagency Panel which negotiated the final Ozone and Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards in 1997. She also served as the DoD Liaison to the President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.

Ms. Sullivan was a member of the team that authored Executive Order 13148, “Greening the Government Through Leadership in Environmental Management,” which President Clinton signed on April 22, 2000. She also helped draft Executive Order 12856, "Federal Compliance with Right-to-Know Laws and Pollution Prevention Requirements." After President Clinton signed Executive Order 12856, she was detailed to the Office of the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, to guide initial implementation.

Her total DoD career spans 35 years. Prior to joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense, she held positions with the Defense Logistics Agency in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Germany where she worked in hazardous waste management, international environmental activities and pollution prevention. Ms. Sullivan has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 2008.

Ms. Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Michael McAndrew
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Facilities Investment and Management
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
Energy, Installations and Environment

Mr. Michael McAndrew is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Facilities Investment and Management, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations and Environment). He is responsible for the development and authorization of military-construction and facilities-related legislative proposals and policies to manage worldwide defense installations; to acquire, manage, and dispose of DoD’s real property; and to acquire, construct, maintain, modernize, and dispose of defense facilities. His office prepares the Department’s annual military construction bill; analyzes requirements and funding for facility investments, including unaccompanied and family housing programs, real property maintenance, and facility operations; manages the Planning, Programming and Budgeting Execution (PPBE) system for military construction, real property maintenance, and base operations; oversees host-nation programs for facilities; and develops procedures to measure the impact of defense facilities on military readiness.

Prior to assuming his current duties, Mr. McAndrew served as the Deputy Director, Base Realignment and Closure Directorate, responsible for policy development and oversight of analysis supporting the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round. He also previously served within the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Deputy Director for Housing and Energy and the Assistant Director of Housing, responsible for DoD-wide policy development and issues related to the operation and ownership of government and private-sector housing for military use; and as the Assistant Director for Base Closure and Utilization, responsible for developing policy and procedures for the Department’s 1993 and 1995 BRAC rounds. Mr. McAndrew began his Department of Defense civilian employment in 1991 as a Presidential Management Intern within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Mr. McAndrew received a Bachelor’s degree in business management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1984 and a Master of Science degree in contract and acquisition management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1991. He completed the Federal Executive Institute Leadership for a Democratic Society program in 1999, and the National Security Study’s National Security Leadership Course at Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 2001.

Mr. McAndrew received a Bachelor’s degree in business management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1984 and a Master of Science degree in contract and acquisition management from Florida Institute of Technology in 1991. He completed the Federal Executive Institute Leadership for a Democratic Society program in 1999, and the National Security Study’s National Security Leadership Course at Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 2001.

Mr. McAndrew resides in Springfield, Virginia, with his wife, son, and daughter.

Lisa A. Jung
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installation Energy
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
Energy, Installations and Environment

Ms. Lisa A. Jung, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installation Energy (IE) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment (OASD(EI&E)). She is responsible for policy and oversight of the Department’s installation/facility energy programs with a primary focus on improving energy performance of DoD installations to reduce costs, improve energy security and achieve mandated Administration and Department goals.

Ms. Jung has served in numerous positions at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Department of the Navy. She began her career as an engineering trainee at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard before joining the Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (NAVSSES) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a mechanical engineer upon graduating from college. At NAVSSES she worked as a ship systems engineer, troubleshooting and devising technical solutions for gas turbine engines. After completing an Office of Personnel Management executive development program in March 1994, Ms. Jung was selected for a position in OSD as the Special Assistant to the Director for the Defense Performance Review (DPR). The DPR was charged with formulating recommendations to improve DoD operations as part of Vice President Gore’s reinventing government initiative. Upon completion of the DPR in September 1995, Ms. Jung took a Program Manager position in the Installations Requirements and Management Directorate within the ODUSD(Industrial Affairs and Installations).

In August 1996, Ms. Jung was recruited for a special assignment as the Executive Officer for the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Chaired by Vice President Al Gore, the Commission was chartered to conduct an intensive inquiry into civil aviation safety, security and air traffic control modernization. Ms. Jung was selected to be the Deputy Director, Competitive Sourcing and Privatization within the ODUSD(Installations) in December 1998, where she was responsible for policy and oversight of the Department’s housing privatization and competitive sourcing programs. After her husband, an active duty Air Force officer was reassigned to the Philadelphia area in August 1999, Ms. Jung took the position of Deputy Director, Technology Outreach at the Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Site where she was responsible for developing strategic alliances and partnerships with industry, other government and academia. Upon her husband’s retirement from active duty, Ms. Jung and her family moved back to the DC area in January 2004 where she returned to OSD and served as Deputy Director, Housing and Competitive Sourcing within ODUSD(I&E). She assumed the duties of Deputy Director, Facilities Energy and Privatization in January 2010. Ms. Jung was selected for her current position in August 2014.

Ms. Jung holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from Widener University.

Amanda Simpson
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Operational Energy
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
Energy, Installations and Environment

Ms. Amanda R. Simpson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy, responsible for developing the strategy for the utilization of energy for military operational forces worldwide. Her former posting was as the Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives [previously the Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF)] and was responsible for large scale renewable energy projects to bring energy security to Army installations leveraging private sector financing. Previously she was the Special Assistant to the Army Acquisition Executive. In that role she was a principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) on all matters relating to Army acquisition, procurement, research & development and logistics. In her first government assignment, she was the Senior Technical Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security where she advised on policy and export control issues necessary to protect the security of the United States.

Prior to her government appointments, Ms. Simpson was the Deputy Director for Force Protection in the Advanced Missiles and Unmanned Systems Product Line at Raytheon Company Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona. She held several program management positions on technology development activities for missile systems sensors and development programs including the upgrades to the AMRAAM and Standard Missile Systems, Tomahawk Cruise Missile, Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft and the AT-6B Texan II. Previous to her tenure in program management, Ms. Simpson was the manager of captive flight test operations for Raytheon Company and Hughes Aircraft Company which included the duties of mission director and project pilot on numerous developmental test programs. Her team received the DARPA Award for Significant Technical Achievement in 1999.

Ms. Simpson began her aerospace career at Hughes Helicopter Company on the Apache Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Systems for the AH-64 Apache Advanced Attack Helicopter during its development phase and later as the program manager for F-14 traveling wave tube production at Hughes Electron Dynamics.

Amanda was the 2001 recipient of the Raytheon Woman on the Move award, the 2004 Tucson YWCA Woman on the Move, 2005 Arizona Human Rights Fund Individual Award, the 2006 Raytheon Missile Systems Team Excellence Award and the 2015 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders Women of Distinction Award. She is a nationally renowned speaker and has presented at corporations, government agencies, civic organizations, conferences and colleges around the country on gender and diversity.

Ms. Simpson earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College, a Master of Science in Engineering from California State University, and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Arizona. She is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics where she served on the Systems Engineering Technical Committee.

Ms. Simpson holds a Federal Aviation Administration Airline Transport Pilot certificate with several type specific ratings as well as a Certified Flight Instructor license. She has nearly 3000 hours flying over 60 different types of aircraft from single seat micro-lights to float planes and flying boats to unmanned drones to multi-engine jets.