Mr. David E. Green is the Chief Technology Advisor to the Director of the Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) Department. As such, Mr. Green provides essential support to the Director for the continuing assessment of ongoing Information Technology acquisition and operations to determine their success in achieving technology objectives. He also serves as the senior technical expert for all matters pertaining to the identification of IT requirements and leads the continuing assessment and identification of promising emerging C4 and information technologies for exploitation and application in the warfighting and business domains.
Hailing from Boise, Idaho, Mr. Green served in the Marine Corps from 1972-1992. He served with the 1st Radio Battalion (one tour), the 2nd Special Security Communications Team (SSCT) attached to 1st Marine Division (two tours), the 1st SSCT attached to 3rd Marine Division (one tour), Marine Support Battalion (two tours, one with Company A at Fort Meade, MD and one with Company I in Adak, AK), and one tour with Marine Corps Systems Command.
Following his retirement, Mr. Green entered private industry. Over the next seven years, he analyzed methods and means to improve communications and levels of interoperability between various tactical UNIX and Windows-based systems exchanging data over diverse tactical communications systems. Mr. Green also authored several technical papers and reports to improve interoperability at the system and architectural level.
Mr. Green entered Civil Service in 1999 when he took a position with the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) to develop processes and infrastructure essential for planning, executing, and reporting on system-of-systems tests. After leading the first two system-of-systems test events conducted at MCTSSA, he went on to define and establish MCTSSA’s efforts that influenced and implemented Navy and Marine Corps systems commands' integration of Navy and Marine Corps C4I systems into net-centric architectures. Focus was to define, establish, and direct organizational efforts that identified and resolved equipment, process and integration issues between Navy and Marine Corps Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) systems.