COL (Ret) William S. Crowder entered active duty in 1967 and retired after 26 years in 1993 as a colonel. Notable achievements included developing three major software systems in transportation and financial management, commanding at the company and battalion level in the far East, serving as Director of Strategic Mobility for the U.S. Army in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and designing and implementing major revisions to the Army approach for strategic deployment and force projection.
He has extensive experience in long-range planning, strategic mobility management, concepts and doctrine development, and technology assessments as a research program manager and Army Transportation officer. He has worked with various DoD communities on improving operational contracting support and applying analytic frameworks to their large data sets.
His expertise lies in logistics, supply chains, and strategic deployments. He recently retired from Logistics Management Institute (LMI) where he was a Senior Consultant having served there in the past as Director, Logistics Services and Future Concepts Division. He has also served at Boeing/SAIC and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His most recent efforts resulted in a DARPA project (Log-X) that focused on the analysis of large commercial data sets to derive intent.
COL (Ret) Crowder has contributed to numerous ASB studies including Task Force Odin Assessment, Evaluation of the Army Use of Predictive Data for High Risk Behavior, Decisive Army Strategic and Expeditionary Maneuver, Strategies to Optimize Army Operating and Generating Forces, The Military Benefits and Risks of the Internet of Things (IoT), Dense Urban Operations (Chair), and Army Corps of Engineers 2019 study (Chair).
EDUCATION
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
University of Georgia, M.B.A., Business/System Design
University of Alabama, B.S., Accounting
Marion Military Institute, A.A., Business