Tracy Tynan

Director of Acquisition and Sustainment Missile Defense Agency

Mr. Tracy E. Tynan is a member of the Senior Executive Service and serves as the Director for Acquisition and Sustainment for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). He is the senior advisor and leader for all aspects of acquisition, sustainment, contract planning and management for all the programs integrated into the approximately $12B annual Missile Defense System. Mr. Tynan also serves as the MDA Senior Services Manager for $3B services portfolio. He is also responsible for the management of Missile Defense related security cooperation activities and relationships with international partners to include international engagements and Foreign Military Sales.

Prior to his current assignment, he served as the Program Director for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Program Office, Missile Defense Agency. He was responsible for developing, testing, fielding, integrating, and sustaining the nation’s strategic defense capability to protect the U.S. against intermediate and long-range ballistic missile attacks. Mr. Tynan was responsible for capability deployments, warfighter training, and operational readiness of the GMD weapon system across the U.S. and International locations. He led an organization consisting of more than 800 military, government civilians, and contractors with fiscal responsibility over $2.5B annually.

Prior to his assignment in GMD, Mr. Tynan served as the Program Director for the Ground Sensors Directorate, approximately $1.8B annual portfolio. These sensors include the Sea-Based X-Band (SBX) Radar, Army Navy / Transportable Radar Surveillance-2 (AN/TPY-2), Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), Upgraded Early Warning Radars (UEWR), COBRA DANE, and Homeland Defense Radar-Guam (TPY-6).

Previously, Mr. Tynan was the Deputy Program Executive for Ground-Based Weapon Systems. Programs within this portfolio, valued at over $3.4B annually, include Ground-based Midcourse Defense, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, four U.S. and Israeli Cooperative Programs, and several classified programs.

Prior to joining the Missile Defense Agency, Mr. Tynan was the Executive Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Acquisition & Sustainment (A&S), monitoring the progress and completion of actions supporting Urgent Operational Needs identified by the combatant commands, a $1.8B portfolio. He also served as the Executive Secretary to the Warfighter Senior Integration Group.

Mr. Tynan served as Director, Space and Missile Defense programs, OSD A&S, guiding a $9B portfolio and responsible for acquisition shaping, analysis, and oversight of warfighter capability portfolios across the Department in the missile defense; cyber; and space domains. He led assessments of cost, schedule, and performance risks of acquisition programs, and worked directly with the Services, the Intelligence Community, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and the greater OSD staff to address identified gaps in program strategies. He was also the Deputy Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT) Lead, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, OSD, serving as a key stakeholder to acquire and procure Defense Business Systems, including five Enterprise Resource System implementations, a $7B portfolio. Mr. Tynan also served as the Director, Acquisition Center of Excellence for the Business Transformation Agency, overseeing 23 DoD acquisition efforts.

As a 26-year colonel in the United States Air Force and Program Director, Contractor Logistics Support, he guided acquisition and sustainment for 385 commercial derivative aircraft of 40 mission design series. He was also Program Manager for two highly classified government efforts, valued at over $2.2B, and was Deputy Director in the Military Satellite Communications Terminals System Program Office. Furthermore, he was Program Manager for the Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System, acquiring and sustaining 18 Defense Intelligence systems, valued at $510M.

As Program Manager for the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment, the Air Force’s largest experimentation exercise, Colonel Tynan led a blended team overseeing an $80M command and control experiment, with results directly transitioned to 19 U.S. Central Command Air Operation Centers. As an Air Staff Division Chief, he led planning, programming, budgeting and execution activities for multiple airframes, totaling $12.3B. He distinguished himself as a Minuteman ICBM Senior Standardization Evaluation Missile Crew Commander and exceled at the highest level while supporting two U.S. Presidents as a member of the White House Staff.

Mr. Tynan is a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. He earned a Master of Science, Management from Lesley College and a Master of Science, National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School, National Defense University. He is a Level III certified Program Manager and has attended both the Executive Leadership Seminar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and The Vanguard Senior Executive Leadership Program in Potomac, Maryland.