Speakers

Mr. Mark D. Stankiewicz is Acting Director of Modeling and Simulation at Studies and Analysis, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible to the Director of SAF/SA, the Secretary, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Chief of Space Operations for implementing the DAF enterprise modeling and simulation strategy as defined by the Chief Modeling and Simulation Officer. He leads a military, civilian, and contractor team examining and developing architectures to provide the DAF with a model repository, shared license library and single login authentication across networks. His team manages the Advanced Framework for Simulation (AFSIM) at the joint and enterprise level and is responsible for the development of the next generation of campaign analytic tools for the DoD. He sits as the Air Force’s liaison to the Office of the Secretary of Defense Analytic Working Group’s Modeling and Simulation sub-group. Mr. Stankiewicz has over 24 years of experience in the U.S Department of Defense, with the majority spent as an operations research analyst for the Department of the Air Force developing strategic analysis and creating models. Mr. Stankiewicz started out designing manufacturing equipment in Massachusetts. In 1997 he moved to the DC area to design ship parts for the Navy as a contractor. He worked on the DDG 51 class Destroyers and the PMS 385 Strategic Sealift programs. In 1999 he moved contracting firms to support the Air Force where he performed mission level analysis supporting Air Force POM scenarios in Air Force Studies and Analyses office. In 2005 Mr. Stankiewicz was detailed to support Air Force Checkmate providing strategic analytic support to current day operations. In addition to his experience with the Air Force, he served as an analyst for the Joint Staff J-8 Warfighting Analysis Directorate analyzing and assessing current day operations plans. He spent five years as a technical advisor for future warfare analysis reviewing and ensuring the analytic integrity of studies and analyses and managing the resources and computing required to perform speed-of[1]relevance analysis informing senior leader decisions on future warfighting capabilities and resource allocation. Throughout his career Mr. Stankiewicz has gained experience in many of the modeling and simulation tools that are used throughout the Department of Defense. He came over to the civilian service in 2008.