Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Constantine is the Chief of Staff for the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime in Columbus, Ohio. He serves as a principal advisor to the Commander and Deputy Commander on operations and readiness of DLA Land and Maritime Supply Chains delivering repair parts to all Military Services. He helps lead 2,700 joint military and civilian professionals spanning 30 worldwide locations to include three DLA Depot Level Repairable detachments, four detachments supporting U.S. Naval Shipyards and numerous deployed units. DLA Land and Maritime’s core functions include purchasing materiel, monitoring inventory levels, maintaining technical data, and assuring quality conformance of approximately two million spare and repair parts used by more than 21,000 military units and federal and civilian agencies. In FY23, DLA Land and Maritime’s sales exceeded $4.4 billion.
Prior to his current assignment, Constantine served as the Milestone C lead Program Manager for the Sentinel Systems Directorate, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. He was responsible for fusing the activities of 1000-plus program managers, engineers and support contractors across 13 divisions implementing acquisition strategy for the $95 billion Sentinel Program, crafting and negotiating the $2.6 billion Sentinel transition request for proposals and supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense in certifying the Sentinel Weapon System.
Constantine began his active-duty career as the Chief of Projects for the X-51 Scramjet Engine Flight Demonstrator program at the Air Force Research Laboratory and has served in a range of R&D, acquisition, requirements and logistics assignments impacting the Air, Space, Cyberspace, Nuclear and C2ISR domains. He has managed acquisition and sustainment programs across multiple platforms to include experimental aircraft, hypersonics, simulators, A-10, F-16, Distributed Mission Operations, the Space Surveillance Network, and the Nuclear Command, Control and Communications weapon system.
Constantine hails from Monterey, California, and was commissioned into the Air Force in 2003 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics. He holds masters’ degrees in systems engineering and research and development management, both from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Constantine has also completed curricula at the National Security Space Institute, Air Command and Staff College, Air War College and the Defense Acquisition University. He holds a Department of Defense Acquisition Corps Advanced Certification in Program Management.
Constantine’s awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air and Space Commendation Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal (one oak leaf cluster).
Constantine and his wife, Christina, have two children.