Terry Mansfield

Biography

Terry Mansfield is director of Net-Centric Operations for Unisys Federal Systems, where he is responsible for directing Unisys program activities such as the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy Implementation effort at U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va.  This pioneering project supports USJFCOM-led Community of Interest pilot efforts such as Time Sensitive Targeting and Blue Force Tracking to make warfighters’ data visible, accessible and understandable, and is being done in partnership with the Military Services, other Combatant Commands and agencies such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Terry has more than 25 years of success planning and directing activities to provide innovative information technology, telecommunications and customer service solutions to include directing the conversion of telephone switch systems from analog to digital in 1992 at all U.S. Army facilities in Japan; providing guidance and leadership in planning and implementing real-world and training exercise information capabilities to successfully support five major U.S.-Japan bilateral military training events held during 1992 and 1993; and directing two successful information technology demonstrations during the 1996 Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) that led to groundbreaking progress in the areas of enterprise-wide network management and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching technology use in support of a deployed Joint Task Force (JTF).

Terry was recognized by DISA for leading the 1997 Outstanding Technical Project of the Year, which resulted in an enterprise-wide automated network management system that provided crucially needed capabilities for the Department of Defense, and saved the government $60 million over an alternate solution.  He received formal recognition by the Department of Defense on six separate occasions for exceptionally meritorious service and performance.

Terry is a recognized subject matter expert within the Department of Defense on the Global Information Grid (GIG) and net-centricity.  He is the principal author of an overarching, far-reaching Department of Defense document published in 2001, which describes a set of globally interconnected, end-to-end information capabilities comprising a Global Information Grid (GIG).  This document (lauded by a top DoD official as "one of the best documents of its kind that I have seen in 27+ years of commissioned service" and as "a great roadmap for the future") guides all future information technology investment across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community--an investment currently valued in excess of $200 billion.  He is also the author of a Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) International Cooperation white paper, commissioned by the DISA MNIS Joint Program Office and published in May 2006.

Areas of Expertise

• Net-centric warfare
• DoD data strategy implementation and management consulting services

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Master’s degree in Management from Webster University, St. Louis Mo.