Full Name
Ms. Rebecca Gassler
Job Title
IWS C- Director of Development & Integration (Acting)
Company
PEO IWS
Speaker Bio
Ms. Gassler is currently serving as the Acting Director for Development & Integration and the Portfolio Management Concept Pilot Lead for Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS). The mission of PEO IWS is to develop, deliver and sustain operationally dominant naval combat systems for our Naval Force. In her role as the Acting Director for Development and Integration for PEO IWS, she works with the Chief Technical Officer, the Command Data Officer, the System of Systems Engineer, the Naval Integrated Fire Control Team, and across the PEO on developing a rapid capability process to close gaps at speed with mature technology, creating a science and technology master plan, and advancing System of System engineering through Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and other digital engineering transformation efforts. In her role as the Portfolio Management Concept Pilot Lead for PEO IWS, she is responsible for driving the innovation and cultural transformation needed to develop and scale a new PEO portfolio management concept as directed by the Strategic Guidance from the Secretary of the Navy, the Atlantic Council Commission on Defense Innovation Interim Report, and the PPBE Reform Commission Interim Report.
In her last role as the Acting Executive Director for PEO IWS, Ms. Gassler directed the acquisition and Fleet support of the Surface Navy’s 169 combat systems, weapons, radars, and related international and foreign military sales programs. Ms. Gassler was responsible for the organization of over 400 civilian and military personnel with an annual acquisition budget of over $6 Billion. Prior to her recent roles with PEO IWS, she was an inaugural member U.S. Navy’s Project Overmatch and served as the Chief Engineer for two years, where she was responsible for design and development of the Overmatch Minimum Viable Product. Project Overmatch is the Naval contribution to Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).
Previously, she served as the MBSE Branch Head within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations’ (OPNAV’s) Digital Warfare Office. There she was responsible for developing and implementing a scalable methodology to model the Echelon I level mission-based performance and information exchange requirements to achieve desired effects within each warfighting domain and to recommend program of record allocations to the resource sponsors. In that role, she was a contributor to the development of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD’s) Digital Engineering Strategy and Navy’s Digital Strategy. Ms. Gassler served on the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO’s) Task Force Netted Navy in 2016, which resulted in the standup of the Digital Warfare Office.
Ms. Gassler has also served as the Chief Architect and the PEO-wide Technical Director at PEO IWS from 2015 to 2016 and the Deputy Program Manager for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 4.0.1 and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA/IB programs from 2011 to 2013. Her career started at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
She was awarded the 2022 Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA) Distinguished Award for Excellence in Engineering. She has also earned two Superior Civilian Service Awards throughout her career. Her degrees include a Masters in Information Systems and Technology from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.
In her last role as the Acting Executive Director for PEO IWS, Ms. Gassler directed the acquisition and Fleet support of the Surface Navy’s 169 combat systems, weapons, radars, and related international and foreign military sales programs. Ms. Gassler was responsible for the organization of over 400 civilian and military personnel with an annual acquisition budget of over $6 Billion. Prior to her recent roles with PEO IWS, she was an inaugural member U.S. Navy’s Project Overmatch and served as the Chief Engineer for two years, where she was responsible for design and development of the Overmatch Minimum Viable Product. Project Overmatch is the Naval contribution to Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).
Previously, she served as the MBSE Branch Head within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations’ (OPNAV’s) Digital Warfare Office. There she was responsible for developing and implementing a scalable methodology to model the Echelon I level mission-based performance and information exchange requirements to achieve desired effects within each warfighting domain and to recommend program of record allocations to the resource sponsors. In that role, she was a contributor to the development of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD’s) Digital Engineering Strategy and Navy’s Digital Strategy. Ms. Gassler served on the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO’s) Task Force Netted Navy in 2016, which resulted in the standup of the Digital Warfare Office.
Ms. Gassler has also served as the Chief Architect and the PEO-wide Technical Director at PEO IWS from 2015 to 2016 and the Deputy Program Manager for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 4.0.1 and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA/IB programs from 2011 to 2013. Her career started at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
She was awarded the 2022 Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA) Distinguished Award for Excellence in Engineering. She has also earned two Superior Civilian Service Awards throughout her career. Her degrees include a Masters in Information Systems and Technology from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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