CAPT (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski, United States Navy

Captain (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in 1958. She graduated from Ursinus College with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and subsequently attended Officer Candidate School, receiving her commission in the U.S. Navy in 1981. She earned a master's degree in Space Systems Operations from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1991 and completed a one-year Federal Executive Fellowship at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. She is also a graduate of the Joint and Combined Warfare School at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.

As a Naval Surface line officer, she served in a variety of engineering and operations billets at sea including command at sea. Additional brief duty periods in Washington, DC, include serving as an Action Officer at OPNAV-513 (Strategy and Concepts Branch) and SECNAV, Office of Program Appraisal (OPA). Following her command afloat tour, she served as Director of Operations (J3) and Deputy Director at the Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. She completed a one-year SECDEF Corporate Fellowship at Human Genome Sciences, Inc., in Rockville, MD. Captain (Ret.) Lewandowski also served as the Director for Operations and Plans at Military Sealift Command Headquarters, in Washington, DC.

Her last active duty tour was in the Office of Secretary of Defense, Office for Force Transformation as a Transformation Strategist. She was the project lead for designing the logistics concept, capabilities, and implementation strategy to support global Distributed, Adaptive Operations of U.S. military forces. Her leadership was key to influencing a shift in the Department’s strategy and actions towards restructuring current logistics capabilities. Implementation of this DoD-wide strategy will create new mechanisms for competitive advantage across the range of traditional and emerging military operations.

Upon her transition from active duty military service, Linda Lewandowski joined Synergy as Principal. Synergy is located in Fairfax, Virginia and is an ICF consulting firm. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Maryland. She is married to Vahan Chertavian. They have two children, Aniela and Diran and reside in Fredericksburg, Virginia.