Ms. Martina Miles Johnson serves as the Defense Logistics Agency Research and Development Deputy Director. In this role, Ms. Johnson leads and coordinates ManTech programs, valued at $49M, that develop capabilities in support of the defense industrial base. These programs include castings, forgings, batteries, microcircuits, additive manufacturing, military uniforms and subsistence (food).
Ms. Johnson also serves as Deputy to the DLA Principal on the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel and Senior Advisor on the DLA/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Partnership Advisory Committee. In addition, Ms. Johnson leads internal and external stakeholder engagements including DLA’s Industry/Collider Day and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Generative AI Hackathon, coordinates the agency’s cloud computing platforms and lab implementations with its industry partners, and directs the Applied Research Testing and Emerging Technologies environment to support academic, industry and military services’ joint project efforts to adopt emerging technologies.
Ms. Johnson is a staunch supporter and advocate for diversity in the present and future workforce and routinely tours Historical Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Service Institutions to present career opportunities with the federal government and offer R&D project collaborations between faculty and DLA program managers.
Prior to this role, Ms. Johnson was the Program Manager for the Records Information Manager directorate and successfully led the organization in a National Archives and Records Administration inspection. Ms. Johnson also served as the Contingency Operations Portfolio Manager and Program Manager for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Contingency and Expeditionary Services (JCXS) program at DLA. The Contingency Operations Portfolio consists of several applications and projects that provide rapid acquisition and logistics support for our nation’s warfighters in the field as well as the DOD enterprise. JCXS is an information technology platform that currently serves over 1,200 users across all service components and combatant commands. Theater Contracting Commands and over 40,000 host nation vendors from around the world access the JCXS website for accurate and up-to-date contingency business information. Under Ms. Johnson’s leadership for the past 8 years, JCXS has expanded from one web service application to 10+ systems across the entire program.
Ms. Johnson served in the private sector for over 10 years with CACI as an instructor and integrator with the Standard Procurements System which inherited legacy service acquisition systems to support the DOD-wide procure-to-pay mandate. She also served at IBM as the Supply Chain Management Program Manager for DOD-wide implementations.
Ms. Johnson has influenced technological policy that has benefited DOD as a whole, including inclusion of the rapid deployment capability as captured by the Commission on Wartime Contracting Report and the Gansler Report. Ms. Johnson began her DOD career as an adjutant general in the U.S. Army in 1989. She’s a respected 20-year veteran with distinguished service during the conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina and in Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
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