John M. Miller, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director of Plans and Programs for the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He leads AFRL’s 92-member plans and programs staff organization charged with developing and managing the process that defines the Air Force Research Laboratory’s $2.5 billion annual investment in technologies for future Air Force systems and enables the alignment of science and technology resources.
Mr. Miller began his career with the Air Force in 1988 at the Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center, Newark AFB, Ohio. His career spans various assignments and locations including a naval air station, logistics and product centers, major command headquarters and Air Staff. He most recently completed a successful assignment at the Pentagon as the Associate and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Acquisition Integration in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition. His experience covers engineering, program and logistics management and policy development.
EDUCATION
1988 Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington
1993 Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Acquisition Corps, Ohio State University, Columbus
1995 Master of Business Administration, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
1999 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
2003 Master of Resource Management, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
2005 Defense Leadership and Management Program
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. August 1988‒November 1995, Electronics and Software Development Engineer, Program Manager and Lead Engineer, Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center, Newark Air Force Base, Ohio
2. November 1995‒August 1998, Chief, Automatic Test Systems Integrated Product Team, Common Support Equipment, Development Systems Manager, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
3. August 1998‒November 1998, detailed to Next Generation Small Loader source selection, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
4. November 1998‒May 1999, Chief, Automatic Test Systems IPT, Common Support Equipment, Development Systems Manager, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
5. May 1999‒August 2000, Deputy System Program Director, Next Generation Small Loader System Program Office, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
6. August 2000‒August 2002, Deputy Chief, CV-22 IPT, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
7. August 2002‒June 2003, Student, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
8. June 2003‒January 2004, Program Manager, MQ-9 Reaper, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
9. January 2004‒February 2005, Program Manager, Transformation Directorate, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
10. February 2005‒September 2006, Deputy Director, Acquisition Chief Process Office, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
11. September 2006‒January 2008, Deputy Chief, Special Programs Division, Directorate of Intelligence and Requirements, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
12. January 2008‒August 2010, Vice Director, 77th Aeronautical Systems Wing, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
13. August 2010‒July 2012, Program Executive Officer for Agile Combat Support Directorate, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
14. July 2012‒December 2014, Program Executive Officer for Agile Combat Support Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
15. December 2014–August 2019, Associate and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acquisition Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
16. August 2019–present, Director of Plans & Programs, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
AWARDS AND HONORS
Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Defense Exemplary Civilian Service Award
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
1994 Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering, Level III, Acquisition Professional Development Program
1999 Program Management, Level III, APDP
2005 Defense Leadership and Management Program
2006 Life Cycle Logistics Management, Level II, APDP
(Current as of October 2019)