Stephen P. Welby
Director, Systems Engineering
Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E)

Mr. Stephen P. Welby is the Director, Systems Engineering for the Director, Defense Research and Engineering, in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Mr. Welby is responsible for establishing both systems engineering and acquisition technical workforce policy across the Department of Defense (DoD). This includes early systems engineering and pre-acquisition development planning programs; system design, development and manufacturing policy; and independent program review and analysis for more than $60B per year in major weapon system acquisition programs across the Department. As acquisition technical workforce executive, Mr. Welby is the Department's systems planning, research, development, and engineering (SPRDE) functional leader, as well as the production, quality, and manufacturing (PQM) functional leader; together these career fields encompass more than 40,000 DoD acquisition professionals.

Mr. Welby has more than 22 years of government and industrial experience in cross-disciplinary technological product development, including leadership positions at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His areas of focus included technology and program management for development of advanced aeronautical and space systems, high energy lasers, ground and maritime systems, robotics, advanced weapons, high-performance software, real-time signal and image processing, and military sensor systems.

Mr. Welby holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a master's degree in business administration from the Texas A&M University, and master’s degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Nicholas M. Torelli, Jr.
Director, Systems Engineering (Mission Assurance)
Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E)

Mr. Torelli serves as Director for Systems Engineering (Mission Assurance) in the Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering. He is the focal point for human capital strategy and planning for improvement of Defense Acquisition technical management career fields (Systems Engineering, Production, Quality and Manufacturing, and related Software (SW) curriculum). His Specialty Engineering responsibilities include reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM), supportability, modeling and simulation (M&S), human systems integration (HSI), system safety, and management of the Value Engineering (VE) and Reduction in Total Ownership Cost (R-TOC) programs.

Mr. Torelli has over 35 years of experience supporting national defense. His career spans the U. S. Navy (submarines), over 25 years in the defense industry with several major corporations, and a prior tour in OSD. After departing the Naval Submarine Force, he held increasingly responsible positions in the defense industry starting as a systems engineer, progressing to program manager and plant manager. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Production Resources) in late 1990, managing weapons systems transition to production, the defense industrial base, quality, specifications and standards, and concurrent engineering. Mr. Torelli worked for the past twelve years for the Raytheon Company, where his responsibilities and accomplishments included executing critical post-merger company consolidations and leading the Six Sigma transformation of the $4B Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence business. He comes to OSD from the highly successful MIND program, winner of the OSD “Top 5 Program” award in 2006, where he managed program development for this large intelligence program.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics / Oceanography from the U. S. Naval Academy (1972) before naval nuclear power training and submarine duty. He retired from the U. S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander, having served as a qualified Battle Group Command Watch Officer and Tactical Training Group (Atlantic) instructor.

Randy T. Fowler
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Materiel Readiness)

Randy T. Fowler was appointed as a member of the Senior Executive Service and assumed his responsibilities in May 2008 as the principal advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) leadership on policies, procedures, and actions related to the materiel readiness of Department of Defense (000) weapons and other materiel systems. He is responsible for weapon system supportability advocacy and the development and implementation of acquisition and sustainment requirements and associated metrics employed during the systems acquisition and life cycle management process. Mr. Fowler further provides oversight over the alignment of budgetary resources to achieve materiel readiness outcomes.
Before returning to the OSD, Mr. Fowler was a member of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) senior leadership team as the Director of the Learning Capabilities Integration Center (LCIC) from January 2007 to May 2008. As the LCIC director, he directed the management of the acquisition, contracting , business, engineering and technology, and logistics and sustainment portfolios at DAU. Prior to this appointment Mr. Fowler served as the Director of the Center for Logistics and Sustainment at DAU from October 2001 to December 2006.
From August 1989 to October 2001 , Mr. Fowler was a senior program analyst in Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (LogistiCS and Materiel Readiness). His responsibilities included logistics strategic planning and implementation of log istics reform and acquisition-logistics integration strategies across the Military Departments and Defense Agencies.
Prior to joining OSD in 1989, Mr. Fowler served in assignments at Anniston Army Depot, the Army Logistics Management College, and the Army Combined Arms Support Command. He has thirty-two years of government experience, primarily relating to weapon system program management, acquisition logistics, logistiCS reengineering, and supply management policy.
His professional development includes completion of the Army Materiel Command logistics intern program in 1978, the Army LogistiCS and Acquisition Management Career Development Program in 1988, and the Secretary of Defense Professional Enhancement Program in 1989. He is a 1998 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and is a member of DAU Alumni Association and SOLE - The International Society of Logistics. Mr. Fowler is active with the National Defense Industrial Association (NOlA) Logistics Management Committee and the Aerospace Industries Association Product Support Committee.
Mr. Fowler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of North Texas, a Masters of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Operations Research from Jacksonville State University, a Masters of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, and attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.

Gregory E. Saunders
Director, Defense Standardization Program Office

Gregory E. (Greg) Saunders is the Director of the Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO). This office serves as the Secretary’s Executive Agent for the Defense Standardization Program. In this capacity Greg is responsible for policies and procedures governing development and use of Military Specifications and Standards, Qualified Products and Manufacturers Lists, use of industry standards, development of performance specifications and Commercial Item Descriptions. He also oversees the Government Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) and DoD activities to mitigate the impact of diminishing manufacturing sources. Greg is the vice-chair of the Defense Standardization Council chaired by the Director, Systems Engineering.

Prior to this assignment, Greg was the Deputy Director for Acquisition Practices in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was responsible for many of the same issues and was one of the principal proponents of commercial acquisition. He served on two Defense Science Board Studies chaired by Secretary of Defense William Perry, and was responsible for DoD's implementation of their recommendations, has testified before congress, and has served on numerous study groups.

Before 1986, Mr. Saunders was a staff member of the Defense Materiel Specifications and Standards Office where he was responsible for the DoD's program to adopt and use standards produced by voluntary standards organizations and for various other aspects of standardization policy.

He is an engineering graduate of the University of Evansville in Evansville Indiana. Greg is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of ASTM International, serves on the Board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and chairs their Government Member Forum, and chairs the Technical Standards Board of the SAE International. He has also chaired or served on various other committees, councils and boards. He is the U.S. representative to a NATO Board and is the Department of Defense Representative on the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy.

Mr. Saunders has won numerous awards including the Vice President’s Golden Hammer Award, the Department of Defense Civilian Service Award, the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, ANSI’s Howard Coonley Medal and their Meritorious Service Award, ASTM’s William T. Cavanaugh Memorial Award, the SAE Aerospace Chair Award, the Standards Engineering Society’s Leo B. Moore Medal of Honor, the Silver Star of the Polish Army, and industry’s Equal Partner Award.