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Bryan Rudgers

Jamaica Bearings Company
Director of Government BD & Regulatory Compliance
UPCOMING EVENT
DLA Supply Chain Alliance Conference & Exhibition : Tech-Quality
Bio

Bryan is the Director of Government BD and Regulatory Compliance for the Jamaica Bearings Company, where he has been since 2001. JBC is a 3rd Generation Family Owned Small Business which started in 1925. JBC is the largest supplier of bearings to the U.S. Government worldwide and #48 of the top 100 DLAs largest Global supply channel partners.

Previously with MPB Bearings Co and the Timken Corporation from 1989 to 2000 where he held various positions, including FAR & DFAR specialty and Business Development for the U.S. DoD and Foreign Governments. Current responsibilities with Jamaica, are for the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Prison Industries and some Foreign Militaries and Governments. With 34 years in the defense industry working with the DLA and the DoD, he specializes in understanding the FAR, DFARs and DLADs. He has worked with members in both houses of the U.S. Congress on legislation regarding small businesses and the domestic bearings industry. Emphasis on small and large business partnerships and counterfeit product in the U.S. DoD supply system mitigation.

Raised in Dover-Foxcroft, ME, he has been in Keene, NH for the last 37 years with his Wife, two boys and pets. While stationed in Groton, CT and Holy Loch, Scotland, he served in the U.S. Nuclear Submarine Service, Atlantic fleet, on the USS Daniel Webster, SSBN 626G. Mohegan College and Midwestern Baptist College. He sits on the Towns Zoning board of Adjustments, Board of Commissioners for the towns Water Department, recent and past Board of Directors and business manager for his Church. He is currently a member of APICS (American production and inventory control society), NDIA (national defense industrial association) - small business committee, NDIA – TRIAD committee, NDIA – ARWG committee, SAE bearings committee, ASTM sub-committee for F-34 Government logistics. He enjoys studying the FAR, DFARs, Federal Register and GAO cases as his hobby and watching wildlife come by his home to say hello.