Leslie L. Bordelon is currently retired and serving as the President of the Board of Directors for the International Foundation for Telemetering.
He is a former member of the Department of Defense Senior Executive Service having served as the executive director, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. He was the principal deputy to the center commander with extensive authority for broad management, policy development, decision making and effective program execution of the center's development, test and evaluation mission. His role as an executive manager involved long- and short-range planning, policy development, the determination of program and center goals, including those involving scientific and technical matters, and the overall management of the Edwards Air Force Base complex.
After serving five years on active duty with the Air Force, Bordelon entered the civilian work force in 1975 as a facility electrical engineer for the Titan II weapon system at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. He has more than 42 years of weapon system acquisition experience in program management, engineering and test including positions as functional manager, chief engineer, engineering division chief, project manager and project officer. He served as the chief engineer and primary technical manager for the Peacekeeper weapon system deployment at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.; was a key architect of the Air Force Materiel Command integrated weapon system management and systems engineering processes; and served as both director of program management and director of systems acquisition, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif, in the acquisition of Air Force satellite and launch systems. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1994.
Bordelon retired from the Air Force Reserve in the rank of colonel in May 1998. In his last Reserve assignment he was the senior Reserve assistant to the director of engineering and technical management at Air Force Materiel Command.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Successful completion of numerous high profile testing activities including F-22, Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV), Joint Stike Fighter flyoff, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-130J, and C-17.
2. Development of the first technical roadmap for aerospace vehicle testing at Edwards for the next 20 years. This was expanded into a roadmap for all testing within the Air Force and a true strategic plan for Air Force Test and Evaluation.
3. Initiated the first Air Force Test and Evaluation Summit to define development test and evaluations requirements for the future.
4. Initiated efforts to define and establish guidelines for Verification and Validation of Network Enabled Systems for NATO through the Systems Concepts and Integration Panel activities of NATO Research and Technology Agency.
5. Reestablished the mission assurance program for all Air Force space launches requiring formal certification of readiness to lauch prior to lauch actions progressing.
6. Invigorated systems engineering as a discipline in the Air Force space programs to include an improved requirements definition process, updated documentation, and better focused training.
7. Initiated the first National Space Infosec Steering Council with NSA to better define, coordinate and communicate space information assurance and security requirements and capabilities.
8. Completion of assembly, checkout, installation, and deployment of the Peacekeeper ICBM on schedule and below cost including full nuclear certification prior to turnover to operater.
9. Refined and documented the systems enginneering and software capability evaluation processes for AFMC providing the foundation for AFMC processes today.

EDUCATION
1968 Bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
1970 Master of science degree in electrical engineering, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
1988 Air Command and Staff College, by seminar
1990 Air War College, by seminar
1993 Program Managers Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, Va.
1994 Leadership in a Democratic Society, Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Va.
1994 Senior Executive Service APEX Orientation Program, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
1995 Air Force Senior Leader Orientation Course, Washington, D.C.
2001 Marketing Transformation to Internal Constituencies, Hammer and Associates, Boston, Ma.
2004 Air Force Senior Officer Security Course, Richmond, Va.

CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. April 1970 - June 1970, student, Air Force Institute of Technology Civil Engineering School, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
2. June 1970 - June 1974, Civil Engineering Staff Officer, Wiesbaden Air Base, West Germany
3. July 1974 - June 1975, Titan II Facilities Lliaison Officer, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
4. July 1975 - September 1977, Titan II Facilities Electrical Engineer, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
5. October 1977 - December 1979, Aerospace Engineer, Minuteman Program Office, Space and Missile Systems Organization, Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
6. December 1979 - December 1984, Systems Engineer, Minuteman and Peacekeeper program offices, Ballistic Missile Office, Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
7. December 1984 - September 1988, Chief Deployment Engineer, Peacekeeper Program Office, Ballistic Systems Division, Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
8. September 1988 - July 1990, Chief Deployment Engineer, Peacekeeper Rail Garrison and Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program offices, Ballistic Missile Organization, Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
9. July 1990 - January 1994, Director of Program Management and Engineering, Detachment 10, Space and Missile Systems Center, Norton Air Force Base, Calif.
10. January 1994 - June 1996, Director of Program Management, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
11. June 1996 - September 2000, Director of Systems Scquisition, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
12. September 2000 ?€“ January 2006, Executive Director, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
13. January 2006 ?€“ Retired as Department of Air Force Civilian.
14. March 2008 ?€“ May 2012, Advisory Board Member/Consultant, Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), Pentagon, Washington, DC.
15. October 2008 ?€“ May 2012, Chairman, Systems Concepts and Intergration Panel, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research and Technology Agency, Paris, France.
16. March 2010 ?€“ June 2010, Sofia Independent Review Board Member/Consultant, NASA, Langley, Virginia
17. November 2012 ?€“ Present, President, Board of Directors, International Foundation for Telemetering

AWARDS AND HONORS
1991 Senior Civilian of the Year, Air Force Systems Command
2000 Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award
2001 AFMC International Award in the Armaments Team Category (Team Lead)
2002 Meritorious Civilian Service Award
2006 Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award

PUBLICATIONS
Co-author, "Assembly and Checkout Technical Analysis Guidebook," 1986
"Baseline Concept and System Description Guidebook," AFMC Pamphlet 800-62, 1992
"Systems Engineering and Configuration Management Life Cycle Application Guide," Draft Military Handbook 499-3, 1992
"Systems Engineering Training Supplement to Life Cycle Application Guide," 1992
"Goin' With the Flow," training video and slide presentation, 1992
"Software Development Capability Evaluation Guidebook," AFMC Pamphlet 63-103, 1993

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