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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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Biosketches of Committee Members

Michael A. Aimone, Chair, is the founder and chief data officer of Energy Management & Analytics, LLC. He specializes in facility energy activities in support to the Department of Defense (DoD), and defense communities. In his 50-year professional career, he served in various leadership positions in the private sector, academia, and DoD. While assigned to the Department of the Air Force, he served in numerous field and staff engineering assignments and concluded his 30-year active and reserve service as the Commander, 819th RED HORSE Squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. He most recently served simultaneously as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Operational Energy); executive director, DoD Siting Clearinghouse; and chief, Business Systems and Information within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations, and Environment). As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he was responsible to the chief of staff of the Air Force for leadership, management, and integration of Air Force civil engineering, security forces, logistics readiness, and aircraft and missile maintenance. He previously served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair for Federal Facilities. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Florida.

James “Jack” Dempsey, Vice Chair, is the founder of the Asset Management Partnership, LLC, that specializes in the advancement, development, and implementation of asset management and digital transformation solutions for asset owners and the asset management professionals that support them. Dempsey has over 30 years of experience as an asset manager for the built environment, his

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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first 20 years as an officer and civil engineer in the Coast Guard and then later as a director, advisor, and consultant at Definitive Logic, Jacobs, and CDM Smith. In this latter capacity he specialized in the development and implementation of technology-enabled asset management solutions for both public and private clients. Dempsey is also an active thought leader and board member on the national and international stages, serving as a member of the National Academies’ Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and as a member and recent convenor of the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 251 for Asset Management representing the United States internationally through an American National Standards Institute–authorized, ASTM-sponsored Technical Advisory Group (US TAG). In addition, Dempsey remains active in the industry as a fellow with the Institute of Asset Management; a board member and senior fellow at the Asset Leadership Network; and as a licensed Professional Engineer.

Honorable Mahlon (Sandy) Apgar IV is a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he focuses on defense infrastructure, military housing and real estate, base closures, and public–private partnerships. Appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate, he served as the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment and led the clearance of a $7 billion maintenance backlog, the design and launch of the award-winning $20 billion program to privatize 86,000 military homes, and the restructuring of 70,000 historic military properties. He was a partner of McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, where he established the infrastructure and real estate practice, and founder of his eponymous firm, where he served major U.S. and UK companies and advised on megaprojects in Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. He was awarded a U.S. patent for a corporate real estate portfolio evaluation and management system. He holds a BA in sociology from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Bilal M. Ayyub is a professor and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and was a visiting fellow at the National Security Analysis Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory in 2015-2016. He was a chair professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2016-2018) and is currently the co-director of its International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure. He completed his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 1983. Ayyub’s main research interests and work are in risk, resilience, sustainability, uncertainty, and decision analysis applied to civil, infrastructure, energy including renewables, defense, and maritime fields and climate-resilient infrastructure. Ayyub is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and an honorary member of the American Society of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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Mechanical Engineers. He is also a fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Structural Engineering Institute, and the Society for Risk Analysis (2017-2018 treasurer), and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Ayyub is the recipient of several awards, most recently the 2016 ASNE Solberg Award, 2018 ASCE Alfredo Ang Award, 2018 ENR Newsmaker award, 2019 ASCE President’s Medal, and 2019 ASCE Le Val Lund Award. He completed his PhD in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a member of the National Academies’ Board on Environmental Change and Society (2022-2025) and the National Academies’ Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities.

Barbara M. Fraumeni is a special-term professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing; a senior fellow at Hunan University in Changsha; a professor emerita of public policy at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine in Portland; and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge. She is also a research fellow of the IZA Network, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, in Bonn. Fraumeni is an authority on human capital (World Bank, United Nations, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and nonhuman capital, economic growth, productivity, and non-market accounts. She is a former program officer with the National Science Foundation and chief economist at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). While serving as the chief economist at the BEA, she was part of a team responsible for modifying the national accounts to treat research and development as an investment and assess its contribution to economic growth. Fraumeni attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1972 with a degree in economics and went on to earn a PhD in economics from Boston College.

David J. Haun is the president of Haun Consulting Inc., providing strategic advice and analytical support to public- and private-sector clients on federal government policy, program performance, and budgetary issues. He specializes in federal real property management and leasing with expertise in the federal budgetary treatment of leases and capital asset investments. Haun had a distinguished 35-year career in the federal government, with 33 years at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). As the deputy associate director, he advised White House and OMB officials on policy, program performance, and budget issues for the Departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, and Justice and the General Services Administration (GSA). He is one of the original authors of OMB’s scoring rules on the budgetary treatment of lease-purchases and leases (OMB Circular A-11, Appendix B) and reviewed countless GSA prospectuses for leases, construction, repair, and alterations. After retiring in 2015, he joined Grant Thornton as a director in its Public Sector practice and in 2018 founded Haun Consulting Inc.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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Brian J. Lepore was a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyst for nearly 32 years in Washington, DC, and Honolulu, Hawaii, including 12 years as a director of defense capabilities and management. At GAO he provided executive leadership of DoD infrastructure program audits, including reviews of military construction; base operations including facilities renewal; energy management; infrastructure privatization; mitigation of climate change impacts on military bases; cyber threats to utility systems; and base realignment and closure. Lepore has over 20 years of GAO experience working with Congress developing new audits, briefing members and staff on audit methodologies and findings, and as a director, testifying at 10 congressional hearings. Lepore represented GAO on numerous live and taped television and radio news and public affairs programs and presented at numerous conferences. He has taught GAO courses on managing congressional relations, DoD’s structure, and performance auditing courses at GAO and one foreign national audit office, and has mentored GAO executive candidates and other staff. Lepore was detailed to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to assist in the investigation into the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Prior to GAO, he was a news and sports broadcaster at several commercial radio stations in Massachusetts. He holds an MPA from Suffolk University and a BA in arts in communications studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Peter S. Lufkin is currently managing partner with Pomar Lane, where he focuses on the development of real property cost and risk models. He previously was the founder and chief executive officer of Whitestone Research. Specializing in cost data products and consulting for capital planning, Whitestone was acquired by CBRE in 2013. His 25 years of experience includes development of the Department of Defense Facility Cost Models and the CostLab facility cost simulation system used by many large commercial property owners and government agencies. Lufkin also directed the development of the RISKSCAN capital prioritization tool and BRICKBITS, a residential cost website. He has authored over 90 technical reports and papers and has published in Public Works Management & Policy, Military Engineer, and Facilities Manager. He was also the publisher of the Whitestone Facility Cost References (North American and International editions) from 1995 to 2015. Lufkin did his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a master’s degree in politics and economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

David J. Nash is currently the president of Sustainable Biofuels Solutions, a waste-to-energy company with two technologies to convert carbon-based waste into either a high-BTU gas or drop-in fuels. He is also the president of Dave Nash and Associates, LLC, which is a company that provides consulting in construction programs and project management. He served the U.S. Navy as a commissioned civil engineer for 33 years before retiring as a Rear Admiral (upper half)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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in 1998. He was a uniformed civil engineer responsible for construction and maintenance of Navy facilities around the world. Beginning in 2003, as a civilian on the federal payroll, he led the initial setup and management of an $18 billion reconstruction program in Iraq after hostilities ceased. He is a registered engineer in Michigan and Pennsylvania. He is a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the National Academy of Construction, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Society of American Military Engineers, and is involved with many other professional organizations. He has led several committees of the National Academies.

Janice L. Tuchman is the editor-in-chief and leads the editorial team creating content for the Engineering News-Record (ENR) enterprise—online, in print, and at live events. She is active in many construction organizations and has developed a broad network of industry sources who help keep ENR on top of the latest trends and innovations. In October 2020, Tuchman became vice chair of the Industry Leaders Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and she is a member of the National Academy of Construction (NAC) and the heavy industry honorary, The Moles. She is on the board of the nonprofit Bridges to Prosperity, which works to alleviate global poverty caused by rural isolation by building pedestrian bridges across raging rivers. She recently joined the board of advisors of the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Spaces at Columbia University and previously served two terms on the National Academies’ Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. She is the recipient of the G.D. Crain Award for Distinguished Editorial Career, the Beaver’s “Service & Supply” Award for outstanding achievement in heavy engineering construction, and the Carroll H. Dunn Award from the Construction Industry Institute for “outstanding contributions to improving the cost effectiveness of the United States construction industry.” She was honored in 2019 with the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association Achievement Award and received the Ted C. Kennedy Award from NAC in October 2020. Tuchman earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26806.
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The United States real property portfolio is critical infrastructure that provides places and means for the federal government to operate and generate the products, services, security, and assurances that contribute to national prosperity and values. This report identifies broad-based, practical, and compelling strategies for securing continuing investment in the renewal of federal real properties and portfolios. Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities focuses on the how- not the what - for adapting, repurposing, restoring, recapitalizing, and replacing real property assets.

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