Inside DSMC - Defense Systems Management College - Brief Article

Program Manager, May, 2000

Retired Navy Rear Adm. Mike Sullivan became the Navy Chair, DSMC Executive Institute, effective March 20, 2000. Prior to his retirement from active duty in late 1998, Sullivan was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition). A graduate of the University of Kansas, he completed his M.B.A at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and Carnegie Mellon University's Program for Executives.

John C. Wilson Jr., became the DoD Chair, DSMC Executive Institute, effective Feb. 1, 2000. Wilson comes the College from the Pentagon where he served for the past year as Director of Systems Acquisition, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics). Prior to his Pentagon assignment, he was the Executive Director of the Air Force Electronic Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Hanscom AFB, Mass. A member of the Senior Executive Service and federal employee since 1974, Wilson holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Arts in Business Management from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a Certified Public Accountant; holds professional designations in Cost and Price Analysis and Contract Management; and is Level Ill-certified in Program Management, Financial Management, and Contracting.