CHRISTOPHER JEHN

The Honorable Christopher Jehn is Assistant Director for National Security of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, responsible for directing CBO's National Security Division. He has been an executive with the Center for Naval Analyses, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and ICF Kaiser International, Inc. During the Bush Administration he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel.

An economist, Mr. Jehn was educated at Beloit College and the University of Chicago. Before he joined the Bush Administration in 1989, he was Vice President and Director of the Marine Corps Operations Analysis Group at CNA, responsible for all CNA's work—weapon systems assessments, human resources analyses, program evaluations, and operational and tactical analyses—for the U.S. Marine Corps.

As Assistant Secretary of Defense (FM&P), Mr. Jehn was responsible for policy and oversight of the recruiting, training, compensation, support, and management of the then more than three million military and civilian personnel in the Department. He planned the substantial personnel reductions of the Defense Department and managed their initial implementation. The plans and special tools developed under his direction are still being used by the Clinton Administration to achieve further reductions in the Defense Department.

Mr. Jehn was named Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses in 1993 and was Director of IDA's Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division when he left to join ICF Kaiser in 1995. His responsibilities there included leading ICF Kaiser's benchmarking and human resources management consulting practices. As an independent consultant, in 1995 Mr. Jehn led an intelligence community task force that developed a framework for sweeping reform of the personnel systems for the U.S. government's civilian intelligence professionals; and he organized and led a team of consultants that successfully defended the Great Lakes Naval Training Center before the 1993 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. In 1997 he served as the Executive Director of the National Defense Panel and, through 1998, as a member of the Commission on Service members and Veterans Transition Assistance. He joined the Congressional Budget Office in 1998 as its Assistant Director for National Security.

Mr. Jehn, a National Merit Scholar, was a University Fellow at the University of Chicago. Among his other awards and honors are the Benjamin Hooks Distinguished Service Award from the NAACP, the Distinguished Public Service Medal from the Department of Defense, and the Meritorious Police Cross from the government of Spain. He was appointed to the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance by the Senate Armed Services Committee.