Elmer L. Roman Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Integration, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Elmer L. Roman serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Mission Integration under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Capabilities in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). He is responsible for leading mission engineering support to the OUSD(R&E), the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and Services to develop mission-focused, threat-informed analyses to help identify and evaluate current and emerging systems, systems-of-systems, technologies, and capabilities within priority operational scenarios to improve mission outcomes, close capability gaps, and shape the design of joint experimentation. As DASD, he also assesses joint mission architectures and executes modeling and simulation analysis to provide quantitative, data-driven results to inform Department of Defense-wide investment decisions on technologies, prototyping, experimentation, and testing.