Mr. Rodgers currently serves as the Director, Program Management at Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Virginia.
Mr. Rodgers began his acquisition career in May 2000 maintaining a full-time collateral duty as the Smart Card Project Officer while serving as the Regimental S-4 Officer at MCRD Parris Island. Assigned to Marine Corps Systems Command in 2002, Mr. Rodgers served as a project officer with the MTVR program. Afterwards, he was assigned to lead the Marine Corps’ HMMWV program from 2003 through early-2007, supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2007, Mr. Rodgers was assigned as the Assistant Program Manager for Spiral Development, JPO MRAP, followed in 2008 by his assignment as the Marine Corps Engineering Lead, JPO MRAP. In 2009 Mr. Rodgers was selected as the Joint Deputy PM for the Army led M-ATV program. Both MRAP and M-ATV were ACAT-ID programs sequentially identified by the Secretary of Defense as the number one acquisition programs within the Department of Defense from 2007 through 2010.
In 2011, Mr. Rodgers was assigned as the Assistant Product Group Director for Programs and the Business Manager for Ground Transportation & Engineering Systems, responsible to the Product Group Director for over 70 Combat Engineer, Expeditionary Power and Motor Transport programs.
Selected as Deputy Program Manager Combat Support Systems in 2013, Mr. Rodgers assisted the PM in the management of Combat Engineer, Expeditionary Power, TMDE, Medical Equipment, Shelters and Field Feeding portfolio numbering over 240 projects/programs within four Product Management Offices.
Competitively selected by ASN RDA as Program Manager Light Tactical Vehicles in February 2015, Mr. Rodgers was responsible for the lifecycle management and execution of resources for the Marine Corps’ HMMWV family of tactical vehicles and trailers as well as the Ultralight family of vehicles. He also served as the Joint Deputy Project Manager-Marine Corps for the U.S. Army led ACAT ID, then ACAT IC Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, headquartered in Selfridge, Michigan. During this assignment the JLTV program matured from pre-Milestone C in 2015 through USMC Initial Operational Capability in 2019.
Mr. Rodgers led the realignment of PM Light Tactical Vehicles with PM Medium & Heavy Tactical Vehicles to assume the role as Program Manager Motor Transport in January 2020. Responsibility included authority for over 35,000 prime movers plus trailers; representing all ground tactical vehicles within the Marine Corps.
In August 2020 Mr. Rodgers was assigned as Portfolio Manager for Marine Corps Supporting Establishment Systems and MCEN Director. For the next three and a half years, Mr Rodgers
partnered with PEO Digital Enterprise Services to provide enterprise information technology capability to the Marine Corps.
Mr. Rodgers assumed his current position as Director, Program Management in February 2024.
Mr. Rodgers holds an Advanced Certification / Level III in Program Management, as well as a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. Additionally, Mr. Rodgers maintained an ITIL 4 Foundation certification for service management while serving within PEO Digital. He also achieved a Foundational Certification / Level I in Life Cycle Logistics, Test and Engineering as well as Production, Quality and Manufacturing.
Mr. Rodgers is a retired Marine Officer and graduate of the Marine Corps’ Amphibious Warfare School (1999) and Command & Staff College (2002) distant education programs, as well as a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (2011) with a dual concentration in the Senior Acquisition Course and Supply Chain Management. He is also a graduate of PMT 401 (2009) and PMT 402 (2012) at the Defense Acquisition University. Mr. Rodgers is a team recipient of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award in 2008 for MRAP, in 2009 for M-ATV and again in 2015 for JLTV. He is also a team recipient of the 2016 Packard Should Cost and Innovation Award for the JLTV Program. Personal awards include selection as the Marine Corps’ 2004 Andrew J. Higgins Award for Acquisition Excellence, the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal in 2009 and again in 2015, and the Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2020 and again in 2024. Finally, Mr. Rodgers is the Marine Corps’ 2022 Lawrence P. Kreitzer Leadership Award for Acquisition Innovation and Excellence.