Dr. Jay Mandelbaum has been in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform since May 1998. He is the Executive Secretary of the Defense Systems Affordability Council (DSAC) which functions as a senior decision making body, as a leadership forum to drive process and cultural change in the Defense Department, and as a fora for exchanging ideas and innovation. In this capacity he was the principal author and driving force behind the publishing of Into the 21st Century, A Strategy for Affordability‹a document, designed to motivate the entire acquisition workforce to pursue a series of strategic goals and objectives. As a follow-on to this effort, he has been instrumental in crafting a performance based balanced scorecard for the Department in a way that translates strategic objectives into tactical plans dealing with financial, internal business process, customer, stakeholder, and learning and growth considerations. Dr. Mandelbaum also leads a team that organizes twice yearly Conferences to foster communication and share ideas among the diverse communities affected by DSAC initiatives.

From August 1995 through May 1998, Dr. Mandelbaum was the Director for Analysis and International Initiatives in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International and Commercial Programs. He was responsible for developing linkages between non traditional sources of supply (e.g., small businesses, international companies, and commercial companies) and the Department's emphasis on using commercial products and processes for defense systems. Dr. Mandelbaum also was a member of a small executive team implementing a Defense Export Loan Guarantee Program that was established in the FY 1996 Authorization Act for guaranteeing commercial loans made to sovereign nations for purchasing U.S. defense products. In addition, Dr. Mandelbaum had oversight and management responsibilities for several technology assessments including Advanced Computing and High Performance Networks, Advanced Materials, and several elements of Microelectronics. In the analytical study that supported the DoD Flat Panel Display Initiative, he forecast supply and demand through the end of the decade and developed a cost model to estimate the internal rate of return of investments in a large-scale commercial manufacturing facility. He also played a significant role in the development of a Dual Use Technology Plan that formed the basis of a new investment strategy for the Department.

From September 1992 through August 1995, Dr. Mandelbaum was an Assistant for Operations Research in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Security. He was the study director for a project that forecast global arms trade through the year 2000. That study also analyzed how the U.S. share of that trade might vary as a function of U.S. conventional arms transfer policy and explored the potential effects on the ability of the industrial base to support defense requirements. As the U.S. representative for NATO stockpile guidance, Dr. Mandelbaum was involved in the development of new political strategies to revise the basis for calculating such guidance. He was instrumental in negotiating international agreements that implemented significant analytical improvements to the guidance while maintaining related U.S. policy objectives. Another former area of responsibility was related to an Initiative for the reuse of Army ammunition plants by commercial companies for commercial purposes. In addition to having been the sponsor and advocate of this program in OSD, he was a member of an executive Federal Advisory Committee to advise on its implementation.

From 1982 through 1992, Dr. Mandelbaum held several other positions in Program Integration and in Logistics in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. As the Director of Munitions Sustainability, his duties included oversight of Services' requirements and stockpiles for munitions. He was involved in identifying and analyzing program and policy issues and defining and evaluating alternatives for senior decision makers, overseeing the preparation of the annual DoD Force Readiness Report, drafting and reviewing sections of the Defense Guidance, developing and preparing issues for presentation and decision as part of the Program and Budget review process. He also developed a new, target oriented approach for displaying and analyzing Service sustainability postures as well as a new conceptual approach for converting level of effort munitions requirements to a target based system.

Prior to working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Dr. Mandelbaum was a statistician for the Federal Railroad Administration from 1979 through 1982. In this position he was responsible for development of information and recommendations for policy decisions in the Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration. In one particular example, he represented the Department of Transportation at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on major railroad merger, where he presented the results of his analysis of the potential traffic diversion and anti-competitive effects of the merger.

Dr. Mandelbaum served as a principal investigator for Mathematica, Inc. from 1976 through 1979 where he worked on numerous policy-related projects involving clients from the Defense Department as well as analytical projects for such organizations as Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and the legal profession as a statistical consultant/witness in discrimination cases. Other experience includes positions in the Naval Sea Systems Command and the David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center from 1970 through 1976.

Dr. Mandelbaum received his M.S. and D.Sc. in Operations Research from The George Washington University in 1976 and 1982 respectively. He earned a B.S. in Physics from Rutgers University in 1969.

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