Senior Pentagon Acquisition Officer — Government Reviewer

**Program Executive Officer (PEO)-level acquisition official** in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)), based in the Pentagon. This is a Senior Executive Service (SES) or brigadier general equivalent with 20+ years in defense acquisition, multiple DAWIA Level III certifications, and direct experience managing programs through Milestone B (Engineering & Manufacturing Development) and Milestone C (Production & Deployment). They have seen hundreds of promising technologies die in the Valley of Death between prototype and Program of Record, and their job is to evaluate whether a technology can survive the full acquisition lifecycle.