The Chief Learning Officer Breakfast Club is an original podcast series from Chief Learning Officer magazine. Each week over breakfast, editor-in-chief Mike Prokopeak and veteran CLO Justin Lombardo invite listeners into an exclusive club of senior learning leaders and participate in a one-of-a-kind conversation about what’s happening in corporate education, featuring in-depth interviews with learning executives, authors and industry leaders. Joining us for today's live taping of the Chief Learning Officer Breakfast Club Podcast will be Jim Woolsey, the president of the Defense Acquisition University. About Jim Woolsey: James Woolsey is president of Defense Acquisition University DAU. In that role, he is responsible for delivery of learning products through the DAU regions, the Defense Systems Management College and the College of Contract Management; curriculum development; online learning programs; learning technology; and library services for a major Department of Defense corporate university. DAU, strategically located within five geographical regions across the country and servicing a global workforce, provides practitioner training, career management, and services to enable the acquisition, technology and logistics community to make smart business decisions and deliver timely and affordable capabilities to the Warfighter. DAU has been recognized both public and private sectors as one of the best corporate universities in the world. He previously served as the first deputy director for performance assessments (PA) in the Office of Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses (PARCA). In standing up the PA organization, he created the processes and practices that allowed it to perform its statutory responsibility of assessing the progress of all Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP). The new office also made a substantial contribution to reinvigorating the defense acquisition executive summary process and provided the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics with unique analyses to give him improved visibility into the status of the MDAP portfolio. Woolsey was previously an assistant director in the cost analysis and research division of the Institute for Defense Analyses. His responsibilities included management of the division’s cost analysis and research, and leadership of a wide range of cost and acquisition studies. His work included a congressionally directed cost benefit analysis of the F-35 alternate engine, an evaluation of KC 767A lease prices, C-5 re-engineering costs and benefits, F-22 production readiness, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile costs and space launch alternatives. Woolsey also served on a Defense Science Board Task Force on long-range strike. Woolsey’s other previous positions include service as a structures engineer for F/A-18 aircraft at Naval Air Systems Command, and work as an engineer for Lockheed Martin airlift programs in Marietta, Georgia. Woolsey has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a master’s in business administration from George Mason University and was a fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI on International Relations.