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Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation | |
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Reports to | Deputy Secretary of Defense |
Seat | Washington D.C. |
Nominator | President of the United States |
First holder | Alain C. Enthoven |
The Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) is a principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The postholder, as chartered under United States Department of Defense Directive 5141.1 in 1996 (subsequently superseded and canceled with the publication of United States Department of Defense Directive 5105.84, Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (DCAPE)), [1] provides independent analytic advice to the Secretary of Defense on all aspects of the Department of Defense (DoD) program, including alternative weapon systems and force structures, the development and evaluation of defense program alternatives, and the cost-effectiveness of defense systems. The office also conducts analyses and offers advice in a number of related areas, such as military medical care, school systems for military dependents, information technology, and defense economics. Consistent with its advisory role, the office has no decision authority or line responsibilities. [2]
The Director of CAPE reports directly to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As a political appointee, the Director of CAPE is an Executive Service Level IV official who is nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. He or she coordinates and exchanges information with other Office of the Secretary of Defense officials, the Heads of the DoD Components, and Federal officials having collateral or related functions.
CAPE's staff of approximately 155 people includes a combination of government civilians and military officers and is augmented by contractor support. The military officers serve in two- to three-year rotational assignments with the organization. CAPE's civilian staff is drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including physics, economics, engineering, mathematics, biology, and computer science. The CAPE staff is recognized as among the most capable in the Pentagon.
This office was most previously known as the Office of Program Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E). However, PA&E was made defunct by the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009.
The table below includes both the various titles of this post over time, as well as all the holders of those offices.
Name | Tenure | SecDef(s) served under | President(s) served under |
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Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) | |||
Alain C. Enthoven | September 10, 1965 – January 20, 1969 | Robert S. McNamara | Lyndon Johnson |
Ivan Selin (Acting) | January 31, 1969 – January 30, 1970 | Melvin R. Laird | Richard Nixon |
Gardiner L. Tucker | January 30, 1970 – March 30, 1973 | Melvin R. Laird | Richard Nixon |
Director (Defense Program Analysis and Evaluation) | |||
Leonard Sullivan | May 21, 1973 – February 11, 1974 | Elliot L. Richardson | Richard Nixon |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation) | |||
Leonard Sullivan | February 11, 1974 – March 13, 1976 | James R. Schlesinger | Richard Nixon |
Director for Planning and Evaluation | |||
Edward C. Aldridge, Jr. | May 18, 1976 – March 11, 1977 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | Gerald Ford |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation) | |||
Russell Murray II | April 28, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | Harold Brown | Jimmy Carter |
Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation | |||
David S. C. Chu | May 19, 1981 – July 13, 1988 | Caspar W. Weinberger | Ronald Reagan |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation) | |||
David S. C. Chu | July 13, 1988 – January 20, 1993 | Frank C. Carlucci III William H. Taft IV (Acting) Richard B. Cheney | Ronald Reagan |
Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation | |||
William J. Lynn | June 25, 1993 – November 19, 1997 | Leslie Aspin, Jr. | Bill Clinton |
Robert R. Soule | July 1, 1998 – April 27, 2001 | William S. Cohen Donald H. Rumsfeld | Bill Clinton |
Barry D. Watts | May 1, 2001 – July 1, 2002 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
Stephen A. Cambone | July 1, 2002 – March 7, 2003 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
Kenneth J. Krieg | July 23, 2003 – June 6, 2005 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
Bradley M. Berkson | June 6, 2005 [5] – April 3, 2009 | Donald H. Rumsfeld | George W. Bush |
Director of Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation | |||
Christine H. Fox | October 28, 2009 – June 2013 | Robert M. Gates | Barack Obama |
Jamie M. Morin | June 30, 2014 – January 20, 2017 | Chuck Hagel | Barack Obama |
Scott Comes (Acting) | January 20, 2017 - August 7, 2017 | James Mattis | Donald Trump |
Robert Daigle | August 7, 2017 – May 18, 2019 [6] | James Mattis | Donald Trump |
E. Y. (Yisroel) Brumer (Acting) | May 18, 2019 – August 16, 2019 | Mark Esper | Donald Trump |
John Whitley (Acting) | August 16, 2019 – March 13, 2020 [7] | Mark Esper | Donald Trump |
Joseph Nogueira (Acting) | May 4, 2020 – January 20, 2021 | Mark Esper | Donald Trump |
Susanna Blume (Performing the Duties of) | January 20, 2021 [8] – April 26, 2021 | Lloyd Austin | Joe Biden |
Susanna Blume | August 5, 2021 – present | Lloyd Austin | Joe Biden |
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