J. Michael Gilmore is the Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate of the United States Department of Defense

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Biography

A native of Ohio

Ohio

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, Gilmore resides in Virginia

Virginia

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. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Career

Gilmore has served as Assistant Director for National Security of the Congressional Budget Office

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 and Deputy Director of General Purpose Programs in the Office of the Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation

Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation

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of the Department of Defense. He was sworn in as Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate in 2009.