Expertise
Acquisition Leadership, Source Selection, Red Team Reviews, Software/IT Acquisition Management, International Treaty Enforcement, CPI Practitioner
Profile
Mr. Carl "Shof" Shofner has over 40 years of federal and commercial experience leading people, executing successful programs, solving technical challenges, managing billion-dollar budgets, and overseeing operations, procurement, and sustainment. He developed and obtained Service Acquisition Executive (SAE) approval on acquisition strategies for the nation’s most sensitive major defense acquisition programs in multiple disciplines: aircraft, space, Information Technology (IT), and nuclear weapon systems. He is a proven change agent who supervised and reorganized operations for contingency contracting in two combat theaters of operation. He built a joint United States Air Force (USAF) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for space-based radar. He stood up the USAF’s first IT business analytics office, leading to over $400M in cost avoidance. He has led federal and commercial organizations of up to two thousand people with operating budgets up to $1B.
Significant Career Accomplishments
Supported 100+ bids with capture strategy, “eye of the customer” insight, and pressure packed red team reviews.
Directed and oversaw the strategic planning and programming process that annually provides $24B of agile combat support across the entire USAF.
Acquisition authority on over 30 major defense programs, 400+ applications and seven multiple award IT technology products and services contracts with a ceiling value of $34B.
Principal overseer of $875M base realignment and closure planning and execution program.
Key Positions
Director and Deputy Director, Command and Control Programs and Airborne Warning and Control (AWACS)
Program Manager, Space Based Radar Program, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
Chief, Advanced Space Systems and Systems Integration, SMC
Chief, Aerospace Integration Branch, SMC
Policy and Issues Analyst to the Secretary of the Air Force (SecAF)
Combat Systems Program Element Monitor, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
Space Surveillance and Special Projects Requirements Manager, Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
Aide-de-Camp, Assistant Executive Officer to the Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe and Commander USAFE
Chief, Atmospheric Defense Initiative Team, Aeronautical Systems Division
Education
MS, Systems Management, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)
MS, National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF)
BS, Chemistry, University of South Carolina
