Anthony Di Stasio currently serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for Anthony Ralph Michael Di Stasio Strategy & Engineering Solutions, LLC (ARMD SES).
Prior to founding ARMD SES, Mr. Di Stasio served as the Director of the Manufacturing, Capability Expansion, and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP) Directorate in the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSW A&S). MCEIP prioritizes and invests in industrial development and production critical for protection national security. His responsibilities included overseeing the execution of authorities contained within Titles I and III of the Defense Production Act (DPA), as well as those associated with the Defense Industrial Base Fund.
Previously, Mr. Di Stasio served as the Director of the DPA Title III Program, now known as Defense Production Act Purchases (DPAP), and the Program Manager for the Department of War Joint Enhanced Munitions Technology Program (JEMTP) at the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW R&E). During his tenure as Program Manager for JEMTP, he also simultaneously served as the U.S. National Lead for the OUSW R&E’s Technical Cooperation Panel (TTCP) for energetics.
In addition, he has 17 years of experience at the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (Armaments Center), headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, where he focused on munitions design and development. His service at Armaments Center included Project Officer for the Future Requirements of Enhanced Energetics for Decisive Munitions Energetics Program, Project Officer for the Joint Program Executive Office Armaments and Ammunition Explosive Thrust, and Insensitive Munitions Technical Lead. He led more than five field transition technologies and holds five patents for the development of the subscale insensitive munitions testing and production of nano-energetics. He won three research and development awards from the Army, as well as awards from NATO for contributions to insensitive munitions technology development. He was recognized by TIME for having one of the “Inventions of the Year” in 2010.
Mr. Di Stasio has expertise in DoW acquisition, technology development, munitions, risk analysis, program management, and defense industrial base investment
