# United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

The Office of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT) pronounced A-salt) is known as OASA(ALT). OASA(ALT) serves, when delegated, as the Army Acquisition Executive, the Senior Procurement Executive, the Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Army, and as the senior research and development official for the Department of the Army. The OASA(ALT) also has the principal responsibility for all Department of the Army matters related to logistics.

## Office symbol

In accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 25–59, OASA(ALT)'s office symbol is SAAL-ZA.

## Components

* ASA(ALT) SAAL-ZA
** Principal Deputy ASA(ALT)
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Data, Engineering, and Software SAAL-ZE
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Elimination of Chemical Weapons SAAL-ZC
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans, Programs and Resources SAAL-ZR
**** Chief Information Officer
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology SAAL-ZT
*** Chairman Army Science Board SAAL-ASB
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Procurement SAAL-ZP
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communication & Business Transformation SAAL-ZG
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Policy and Logistics SAAL-ZL
*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Exports and Cooperation SAAL-ZN
*** Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management SAAL-ZS
** Principal Military Deputy/Director Acquisition Career Management/Chief Integration Officer
*** Deputy for Medical Systems
*** Director US Army Acquisition Support Center USAASC
*** Director Chemical Materials Agency (CMA)
*** JPEO Armaments & Ammunition (A&A)
*** JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD)
*** JPEO Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
*** PEO Aviation (AVN)
*** PEO Command Control Communications Tactical (C3T)
*** PEO Combat Support & Combat Service Support (CS&CSS)
*** PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)
*** PEO Ground Combat Systems (GCS)
*** PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (IEW&S)
*** PEO Missiles and Space (M&S)
*** PEO Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (STRI)
*** PEO Soldier
** Direct Reports
*** United States Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC)
*** Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC)
*** Army Science Board
*** ASA(ALT) System of Systems Engineering and Integration (ASA(ALT) SoSE&I)
** Life Cycle Management
*** Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Integration Office (ALT IO)
*** Deputy for Life Cycle Integration
*** Tank-Automotive Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC)
*** Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM LCMC)
*** Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (C-E LCMC)
*** Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command (JM&L LCMC)

## In role of Acquisition Executive

The ASA (ALT) is generally delegated the role of Acquisition Executive. (See Army Acquisition Corps)
In June 2018 the Acquisition Executive launched xTechSearch or Expeditionary Technology Search, a four-phase catalyst for the Army to engage with the community of innovators:
* Concept white paper contest for technological ideas
* Up to 125 selected contestants pitch their ideas to a panel of Army experts
* Up to 25 semifinalists will be featured at the Innovator's Corner of the annual AUSA meeting in November
* 12 finalists in a Capstone Demonstration to DoD, for a $200,000 prize
The direct reports of the Acquisition Executive are Program Executive Officers for the respective Program Executive Offices (PEOs)
* JPEO Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD)
* JPEO Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
* PEO Ammunition (AMMO)
* PEO Aviation (AVN)
* PEO Command Control Communications Tactical (C3T)
* PEO Combat Support & Combat Service Support (CS&CSS)
* PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)
* PEO Ground Combat Systems (GCS)
* PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (IEW&S)
* PEO Missiles and Space (M&S)
* PEO Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (STRI)
* PEO Soldier

## Chronological list of ASA(ALT)s

| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Secretary(s) served under | President appointed by |
| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Secretary(s) served under | President appointed by |
| 1 | | Paul J. Hoeper | May 29, 1998 | January 20, 2001 | 2 years, 236 days | Louis Caldera | Bill Clinton |
| – | | Kenneth J. Oscar (acting) | January 20, 2001 | February 1, 2002 | 1 year, 12 days | Thomas E. White | George W. Bush |
| 2 | | Claude M. Bolton Jr. | February 1, 2002 | January 2, 2008 | 5 years, 335 days | Thomas E. White Francis J. Harvey Pete Geren | George W. Bush |
| – | | Dean G. Popps (acting) | January 2, 2008 | March 4, 2010 | 2 years, 61 days | Pete Geren John M. McHugh | George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| 3 | | Malcolm Ross O'Neill | March 4, 2010 | June 3, 2011 | 1 year, 91 days | John M. McHugh | Barack Obama |
| 4 | | Heidi Shyu | June 4, 2011 | January 30, 2016 | 4 years, 240 days | John M. McHugh Eric Fanning (acting) Patrick Murphy (acting) | Barack Obama |
| 5 | | Katrina McFarland | February 1, 2016 | November 1, 2016 | 274 days | Patrick Murphy (acting) Eric Fanning | Barack Obama |
| – | | Steffanie Easter (acting) | November 2, 2016 | November 8, 2017 | 1 year, 6 days | Eric Fanning Robert M. Speer (acting) | Barack Obama |
| – | | Jeffrey S. White (acting) | November 8, 2017 | January 1, 2018 | 54 days | Ryan McCarthy Mark Esper | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| 6 | | Bruce D. Jette | January 2, 2018 | January 21, 2021 | 3 years, 19 days | Mark Esper Ryan McCarthy John Whitley (acting) | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| – | | Douglas R. Bush (acting) | January 21, 2021 | February 11, 2022 | 1 year, 21 days | John Whitley (acting) Christine Wormuth | Joe Biden |
| 7 | | Douglas R. Bush | February 11, 2022 | January 20, 2025 | 2 years, 344 days | Christine Wormuth | Joe Biden |
| – | | Patrick Mason (acting) | January 20, 2025 | Present | 1 day | Mark Averill (acting) | Donald Trump |