Dan Tenney

Responsible for bringing integrated capabilities to customers who rely on Lockheed Martin for mission-critical needs, as well as establishing comprehensive strategies across the enterprise that will enable future growth.

Responsible for understanding how Lockheed Martin can serve our customers with a comprehensive growth strategy, developing new markets, and keeping programs sold. Leads strategic planning, investment, acquisition, and new business concepts for each of the four lines of business that make up the $18 billion dollar RMS portfolio.

Led strategic planning, growth, advanced concepts, portfolio investments, international strategies, and capture process for each of the companies lines of space business with over $12 billion in annual revenues. Achieved record growth across civil, military and national security by providing the most advanced and resilient capabilities possible to our customers.

As the Vice Chancellor for Finance/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the University of North Texas System, planned and oversaw an annual budget of over $1.3 billion and provided executive leadership across three major institutions of higher education. Provided solution-driven results and optimized performance to increase revenues, reduce expenses, and create additional value for over 49,000 students. Optimized operations and integrated more automation into existing practices. Directed Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and ensured a balanced risk posture. Managed and integrated a variety of strategic and operational areas including budgeting; financial planning and analysis; accounting and payroll; treasury and investments; procurement and payment services, and the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program.

Served as the senior most official at NASA responsible for the leadership and integration agency mission support activities with annual budget of over $3 billion, and 5,000+ facilities operating across 14 different states. Led and optimized operations across a variety of areas including Human Capital Management, Infrastructure, Construction, Procurement, Protective Services, Headquarters Operations, Shared Services Center, and Partnerships, including Space Act Agreements. Developed and implemented a new operational model and integrated activities across NASA saving over $200 million in annual costs. Enacted facility revitalization strategy to modernize highly technical test capabilities while reducing square footage by 25%.

Served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Mission Support helping to lead and optimize operations across NASA’s 10 Centers, and managing assets valued at over $40 billion. Led and directed major transformations including the NASA Business Services Assessment, that established a more efficient operational model for accomplishing national mission objectives in space, science, aeronautical research and space technology.

Served as the Chief Financial Officer at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA and led planning, budgeting, program analysis, and accounting activities for a national research laboratory with assets valued at more than $3 billion. Consolidated operations across 23 different organizations and reduced costs by over 30% annually.

During the shuttle era, served as the Director of the Management and Technical Support Office at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) and led diverse agency operations, directed integrated business activities across ten field centers, and enabled solution-driven results for the highest risks challenges at NASA, including safely flying out the Space Shuttle.

Led programmatic improvements and enhanced management of the Constellation Program (as the replacement to Space Shuttle) and integrated budgeting, scheduling, management and execution for a $3.5b annual program; enabling new joint confidence level analyses, and early insight into potential challenges and risks.

Served as the Deputy CFO for Systems and managed 30+ business systems across an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) portfolio, implemented major systems, and delivered timely and reliable information to hundreds of program/project managers. Served as Deputy CFO for Finance (Controller) and led a highly professional and diverse staff, demonstrated data integrity, and achieved an unqualified (clean) audit opinion with no material weaknesses on financial statements.

Led strategic planning, budget formulation and execution activities for annual operations of over $800m, and identified high quality outcome measures to improve performance. Led NASA to become the first federal agency to implement full cost operations agency-wide leveraging activity-based costing principles enabling the first-ever insight into the full cost of space station and other major programs.

Directed financial planning, analyses and program planning for NASA Langley Research Center