Colonel Alicia Johnson

Colonel Johnson is the Project Manager for Combat Ammunition Systems- Indirect Fire (PM CAS) within the Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Agile Sustainment & Ammunition (PAE AS&A) at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. In this role, she serves as the life cycle program manager for precision and conventional artillery,mortar ammunition, and fire control systems for the United States's Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and our allies.

COL Johnson is a native of Carrollton, Texas, and enlisted in the Army in January 1997. In August 1999, she was accepted into the Army's ROTC Green-to-Gold program at Virginia State University. In December 2001, COL Johnson was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Finance Corps, initially branch-detailed to Field Artillery. She began her Army Acquisition career in 2010 and is certified in Program Management and Test and Evaluation.

Her previous operational assignments include Battery Executive Officer, the United States Army Field Artillery Training Center; Detachment Executive Officer, 15th Finance Battalion, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Assistant Deputy, Defense Military Pay Office (DMPO), Fort Benning, Georgia; Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Fort Benning Garrison Command; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Deputy Resource Manager, 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, Yongsan, Korea.

COL Johnson has held a variety of acquisition positions: Assistant Executive Officer for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)), Yuma Test Center Director for the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command, Military Deputy Director, Survivability Evaluation Directorate at the Army Evaluation Center; Assistant Product Manager, Capability Package Directorate at System of System Engineering and Integration (SoSEI), Contracting Officer at the Defense Contract Management Agency - Springfield; and Assistant Product Manager, Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) at PEO Soldier Weapons.

COL Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Virginia State University, a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management from Webster University, and a Master of Science in National Security and Resourcing with a Senior Acquisition concentration from the National Defense University's Eisenhower School. Her military education includes the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, Financial Management Captain's Career Course, and Acquisition Basic and Intermediate Qualification Courses.

Her military decorations and awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Army Achievement Medal with three oak leaf clusters, NATO Defense Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, the Army Superior Unit Award, and the Army Staff badge.