Charles Coogan, CPL, Fellow

Mr. Charles Coogan is director and founder of Acquisition Logistics Engineering. Mr. Coogan's extensive background in DoD, NASA, and commercial systems analysis provides the basis for development and application of innovative approaches for dealing with needs of future systems. He is directly responsible for developing practical methods for implementing specialty analysis for both large and small systems and has taught these methods to government and industry analysts. He is a Fellow of The International Society of Logistics (SOLE).

Education

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Graduate, Defense System Management College
Graduate, Air War College

Certifications

Certified Professional Logistician
FAA Certified Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic
Graduate, Defense System Management College
Graduate, Air War College

Qualifications

Mr. Coogan is a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) with 40 years experience in all aspects of systems analysis from definition of system requirements to performing maintenance on operational systems.

As an Air Force officer, duties included advanced systems analysis as a systems engineer, management of aircraft modification as an in-service engineer, introduction of new systems into the logistics process as System Manager for the FB 111, Deputy Program Manager for Logistics for the F 111, formulation of the Air Force approach to ILS planning as the Deputy for Acquisition Plans and Analysis for the AFALD and initiator of the Joint Service Working Group for Logistics Support Analysis enhancement. He conducted several specialized studies such as the future Air Force requirements for software support, the Joint AFLC/AFSC Study on Automatic Test Equipment, analysis of future transport requirements, and systems analysis of future air defense requirements.

As a logistics research scientist for Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Mr. Coogan developed a systematic approach to improving Air Force Logistics Command's data systems, defined an orderly approach to research for the Air Force Human Research Laboratory, developed and applied the concept of Front-End specialty engineering analysis and established the specialty engineering research group. He is the author of the draft U.S. Army Handbook, "Guide to LSA During Concept Exploration."

Mr. Coogan has assisted several major defense and commercial organizations in developing their specialty analysis capabilities. Assistance has ranged from proposal preparation to task accomplishment and has included program analysis, staff acquisition, training and procedures development. Areas of application include: systems analysis, system safety, reliability, and maintainability analysis, and cost analysis. His experiences include systems for land, sea, air and space.

He served as Chairman of SOLE's Ad Hoc Committee on Re-Engineering Supportability, an international effort to streamline application of Supportability in the Government and commercial sectors. That Committee developed methods for accomplishing and metrics for measuring, Performance Based Supportability. He has successfully used Performance Based Supportability methods on several programs and is developing documentation of the Performance Based Supportability process. Mr. Coogan developed the Front End Analysis process and has applied it to many programs to gain insights to major cost drivers. He has also led the Total Ownership Cost (TOC) analysis efforts for several major programs resulting in over $250 billion in cost reductions.