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Maurice Stewart is Deputy Chief of the Department of Defense (DOD) Logistics Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) Office at Headquarters Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In this position he is responsible for establishing AIT policy, standardization, and implementation in the Military Departments and Defense Agency€™s supply chain functions. He conducts research on new and emerging data collection technologies to satisfy the Combatant Commanders, Military Services and Defense Agencies in transit visibility and total asset visibility requirements.

Mr. Stewart entered Civil Service in 1978 through the Air Force€™s Logistics co-operative education program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He has served in various assignments in the Department of Defense, including Operational War Plans Analyst at Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC), from 1980 to 1982. In 1982 he was selected to the AFLC Management Intern Program and assigned to Sacramento Air Logistics Center (SM-ALC), McClellan Air Force Base, California were he worked in the plans and programs, material management, maintenance, distribution, and base operations directorates. In 1987 Mr. Stewart was competitively selected for Secretary of Defense€™s Supply Management Intern Program at the Pentagon. In 1989 he returned to SM-ALC and served as the logistics sustainment and acquisition program manager for the Command NODAL Communications Element and Modular Tactical Air Control Center respectively. From 1991 through 1993, Mr. Stewart served as Branch Chief for the Space and Communications Industrial Marketing Office. In 1994 he was selected for a Career Broadening position at Headquarters Air Force, Directorate of Maintenance were he served as the Air Force representative on the Joint Depot Maintenance Working Group Base Realignment and Closure Team. In 1995 Mr. Stewart was selected for the Secretary of Defense€™s Maintenance Fellow program. In 1996 he served in the Office Secretary of Defense Corporate Logistics Office as program manager for Flexible Sustainment, Embedded Training, and Computer Protection Infrastructure Programs. Mr. Stewart became the Deputy Chief of the DOD Logistics AIT Office in 1998 and assumed duties as the chief in 2000

Mr. Stewart is a graduate of Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio and has a Master€™s in Public Administration from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California. He is a native of Youngstown, Ohio.

About the DOD Automatic Identification Technology Office

The Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics tasked the Defense Logistics Agency as Executive Agent for AIT and established the office to serve as proponent to manage AIT for the Department. The office performs the central role as functional integrator with the mission to establish policy, promote, manage, coordinate, and document the application of DoD and Joint Logistics AIT doctrine, technologies, and processes in support of the warfighters including the Combatant Commanders, Joint Task Force (JTF) Commanders, Military Services, and DoD activities.

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