David Litman – Member, Board of Directors at FAIR

Former Senior Procurement Executive for the U.S. Department of Transportation and Former Chair of the Federal Chief Acquisition Officers’ Council Human Capital Working Group

From October 1995 through February 2008, David Litman was Senior Procurement Executive for the Department of Transportation (DOT). His responsibilities included overseeing DOT’s $6 billion annual acquisition program, providing leadership and policy guidance to the DOT acquisition work force, overseeing grants management and policy, and guiding the competitive sourcing program. Mr. Litman also served as Chair of the Federal Acquisition Institute Board of Directors and was Chair of the Chief Acquisition Officers’ Council Human Capital Working Group.

Previously, Mr. Litman spent more than 10 years as a contract specialist, contracting officer, deputy branch head and branch head in the contracting division of the Joint Cruise Missiles Project, Department of the Navy acquiring the TOMAHAWK Cruise Missile and its components.

From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Litman served as the inaugural Vice-Chair of the Procurement Executives Council (the forerunner to the current Chief Acquisition Officers’ Council), which brought together procurement executives from federal agencies to address common concerns and government wide issues. He also served as chair of the Council’s Performance Measurement Committee.

Mr. Litman retired from federal service in February 2008. He is a CAO SAGE (Strategic Advisor to Government Executives), a program sponsored by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and a Director of the Procurement Round Table, a nonprofit organization chartered in 1984 by former Federal acquisition officials concerned about the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Federal acquisition system.

Mr. Litman received a BA in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.