Agenda

Mr. Sermon entered the Senior Executive Service in February 2019, and has been in federal service for more than 20 years. He has served in a variety of key leadership positions throughout his career, including Deputy Program Manager for the Columbia Class Submarine program (2016-2019), a $100 billion DoD Major Defense Acquisition Program. During his tenure, he led the program through detail design, construction readiness, and significant sustainment planning activities. Before leading the Columbia Class, he was the Deputy Program Manager for the Zumwalt Class Destroyer (2014-2016) during test, trials, and delivery of the lead ship (DDG 1000). Prior to DDG 1000, he was the Deputy Program Manager for International Fleet Support in the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Surface Warfare Directorate (2010- 2014), where was responsible for the management of more than $5 billion in Foreign Military Sales cases for more than 40 partner nations.

Other previous assignments include Principal Assistant Program Manager in the Support Ships, Boats, and Craft Program Office (PMS 325) in PEO Ships (2007-2010), where he led the $1.1 billion Egyptian Navy Missile Craft project while providing program management expertise for numerous other boat building projects.

Prior to starting in Navy civilian service, Mr. Sermon was a U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer (Nuclear). He received his Surface Warfare Officer qualification aboard USS Ramage (DDG 61). Additionally, Mr. Sermon served as nuclear engineering officer aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) before leaving the uniformed Navy in 2004. He is a veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

Mr. Sermon is a member of the Acquisition Professional Community and has a Level III Certification in Program Management. He holds Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certifications in Production, Quality, and Manufacturing and Test & Evaluation, and has completed certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP). He received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the United States Naval Academy in 1999, and a Master of Science degree in engineering management from The Catholic University of America in 2006. He is a 2012 graduate of the Defense Systems Management College’s Program Manager Course. During his distinguished federal service career, Mr. Sermon has received three Navy Civilian Meritorious Service Awards and one Navy Civilian Superior Service Award.

As the former president, CEO and director of 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD), Reichental led the company for over twelve years, building the largest additive manufacturing market leader. Previously, Avi served as senior executive and officer of Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) for twenty-two years. Reichental is also the former Chairman of Nano Dimension (NASDAQ:NNDM) and served on the board of directors of Harman International (NYSE:HAR) until its sale to Samsung.

In 2013, he was listed by Fortune Magazine as a top 50 business leader and in 2014 he was named by Popular Mechanics as one of the top 25 Makers Who Are Reinventing the American Dream. His acclaimed TED talk about the future of 3D printing has garnered more than 2.6 million views. He is a member of the XPRIZE board of directors, and a former trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Ms. Johnson also serves as Deputy to the DLA Principal on the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel and Senior Advisor on the DLA/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Partnership Advisory Committee. In addition, Ms. Johnson leads internal and external stakeholder engagements including DLA’s Industry/Collider Day and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Generative AI Hackathon, coordinates the agency’s cloud computing platforms and lab implementations with its industry partners, and directs the Applied Research Testing and Emerging Technologies environment to support academic, industry and military services’ joint project efforts to adopt emerging technologies.

Ms. Johnson is a staunch supporter and advocate for diversity in the present and future workforce and routinely tours Historical Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Service Institutions to present career opportunities with the federal government and offer R&D project collaborations between faculty and DLA program managers.

Prior to this role, Ms. Johnson was the Program Manager for the Records Information Manager directorate and successfully led the organization in a National Archives and Records Administration inspection. Ms. Johnson also served as the Contingency Operations Portfolio Manager and Program Manager for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Contingency and Expeditionary Services (JCXS) program at DLA. The Contingency Operations Portfolio consists of several applications and projects that provide rapid acquisition and logistics support for our nation’s warfighters in the field as well as the DOD enterprise. JCXS is an information technology platform that currently serves over 1,200 users across all service components and combatant commands. Theater Contracting Commands and over 40,000 host nation vendors from around the world access the JCXS website for accurate and up-to-date contingency business information. Under Ms. Johnson’s leadership for the past 8 years, JCXS has expanded from one web service application to 10+ systems across the entire program.

Ms. Johnson served in the private sector for over 10 years with CACI as an instructor and integrator with the Standard Procurements System which inherited legacy service acquisition systems to support the DOD-wide procure-to-pay mandate. She also served at IBM as the Supply Chain Management Program Manager for DOD-wide implementations.

Ms. Johnson has influenced technological policy that has benefited DOD as a whole, including inclusion of the rapid deployment capability as captured by the Commission on Wartime Contracting Report and the Gansler Report. Ms. Johnson began her DOD career as an adjutant general in the U.S. Army in 1989. She’s a respected 20-year veteran with distinguished service during the conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina and in Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.