Bruce T. Bennett is the Program Executive Officer for Communications, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer, and the Chief Engineer for the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He is responsible for the engineering, evolution, planning, resourcing, and the acquisition of Terrestrial, Aerial, and satellite communications for all of the DISA strategic business units. As the Deputy Chief Technical Officer for DISA, his role encompasses DISN, Commercial Satellite Communications, and the Joint Gateway Teleports. It is the Commercial Satellite Communications and Joint Gateway Teleports that provide the bulk of the Department of Defense’s strategic Satellite Communications transport infrastructure to the warfighter. The total scope of his acquisition responsibility exceeds $500 million per year and he manages 400 technical and administrative employees.

Mr. Bennett is a career federal professional and has held many positions with the Department of Defense.     [ Click for More ]

Bruce T. Bennett is the Program Executive Officer for Communications, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer, and the Chief Engineer for the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He is responsible for the engineering, evolution, planning, resourcing, and the acquisition of Terrestrial, Aerial, and satellite communications for all of the DISA strategic business units. As the Deputy Chief Technical Officer for DISA, his role encompasses DISN, Commercial Satellite Communications, and the Joint Gateway Teleports. It is the Commercial Satellite Communications and Joint Gateway Teleports that provide the bulk of the Department of Defense’s strategic Satellite Communications transport infrastructure to the warfighter. The total scope of his acquisition responsibility exceeds $500 million per year and he manages 400 technical and administrative employees.

Mr. Bennett is a career federal professional and has held many positions with the Department of Defense. Prior to 2010, he was responsible for the entire engineering and evolution of the Global Information Grid and the Defense Information Services Network. He led the redesign of the GIG to an Internet Protocol-centric service, established the Multi-Protocol Label Switching backbone, led the Everything over Internet Protocol (EoIP) transition of satellite communications first with the Global Broadcasting System (GBS) and then with the Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM). Prior to coming to DISA in 1997, Mr. Bennett held numerous leadership positions in the development of US Army signals intelligence. His last position prior to moving to DISA was the Chief of the Research and Technology Branch responsible for all US Army signals intelligence developments. Prior to that position, he held several acquisition positions with the last being the Program Manager for the US Army Strategic and Fixed Station Line-of-Site portfolio.

Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, Mr. Bennett has a Master’s Degree in Science, Systems Engineering from Texas A&M, a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, and numerous advanced certificates from George Washington University and the Department of the Army. He is also a Level III Acquisition Professional in Program management and Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering. He graduated from the US Army Engineering Inter Training Center at Texarkana, TX in 1982.