Charles Anthony Braswell, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director of Contracting, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He steers contracting policy for 12 operating locations, ensures workforce development for more than 2,100 contracting professionals and manages a support and contract execution staff of more than 200 personnel. Mr. Braswell guides more than $40 billion in annual obligations for 12 Program Executive Officers and two Direct Report Divisions. He is also responsible for more than 550 Air Force, joint and allied warfighting programs valued at more than $256 billion in active contracts. These programs include F-22 and F-16 fighter aircraft; C-17 and C-5 cargo aircraft; KC-46 tanker aircraft, B-1 and B-2 bomber aircraft; Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization; and Predator, Global Hawk and Reaper remotely-piloted aircraft.
Prior to this assignment, he served as the Director of Contracting, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.
Mr. Braswell entered government service with the Air Force in 1984 as a contracts specialist at Hill AFB, Utah, where he served as a contract administration officer and contracting systems manager. He has served in a variety of key contracting positions within Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Materiel Command. He held key management positions on joint service projects for the Department of Defense as the Air Force liaison to Procurement Corporate Information Management Council and as an Air Force representative on the Joint Service Standard Procurement System source selection. He has served in a number of other key leadership positions bringing his innovative ideas and proactive approach to build strong organizations that produce outstanding results for the warfighter.
EDUCATION
1982 Bachelor of Science degree, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
1983 Master of Business Administration, Idaho State University, Pocatello
2003 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., by correspondence
2006 Defense Leadership and Management Program, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. September 1984–January 1987, Contract Administrator, later Administrative Contracting Officer, Contract Administration Division, Hill Air Force Base, Utah
2. January 1987–July 1990, Procurement Analyst, later Supervisory Procurement Analyst, Contracting Systems Division, Hill AFB, Utah
3. July 1990–April 1993, Supervisory Procurement Analyst, Future Systems Office, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
4. April 1993–September 1997, Chief, Future Systems Office, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
5. September 1997–August 1999, Procurement Analyst, Commander’s Acquisition Support Staff, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
6. August 1999–February 2001, Contracts Reviewer, Contracting Business and Support Division, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
7. February 2001–October 2003, Chief, Reconnaissance Systems Contracting Branch, Reconnaissance System Wing, Aeronautical System Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
8. October 2003–March 2005, Chief, Global Hawk Contracting Division, Reconnaissance Systems Wing, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
9. March 2005–September 2007, Chief, F-16 Contracting Division, 312th Aeronautical Systems Group, Aeronautical System Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
10. September 2007–March 2008, Chief of Contracts, 326/312th Aeronautical Systems (Fighter/Bomber) Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
11. March 2008–January 2013, Chief of Contracting, 508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing, later, Aerospace Sustainment Directorate, Hill AFB, Utah
12. January 2013–February 2015, Deputy Director of Contracting, Air Force Sustainment Center Operating Location, Hill AFB, Utah
13. February 2015–October 2017, Director of Contracting, Air Force Sustainment Center Operating Location, Hill AFB, Utah
14. October 2017–January 2021, Director of Contracting, Air Force Sustainment Center Operating Location, Hanscom AFB, Mass.
15. January 2021-Present, Director of Contracting, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Acquisition Professional
Program Management Level I December 1992
Professional Designation in Contract Management (AFIT) March 1994
Contract Management Certification (ALMC) April 1994
Contracting Level III May 1994
Contracting, Systems April 1995
AWARDS and HONORS
1989 Award of Merit
1992 Headquarters Air Force Material Command/PK Outstanding Manager of Year
1996 Defense Certificate of Recognition for Acquisition Innovation
1996 Special Act Award
2017 Meritorious Civilian Service Medal
(Current as of March 2021)