Major General (Ret.) Kirk F. Vollmecke

Major General (Ret.) Kirk F. Vollmecke specializes in defense acquisition and procurement management culminating in a 35-year Army career as the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors. As the PEO, Kirk was the senior executive responsible for the acquisition life cycle and portfolio management of over 50 major defense programs with an annual spend budget of $3 billion and 2,000 personnel.  His product development and life-cycle management activities spanned aircraft survivability, biometrics, electronic warfare, offensive cyber, space, assured-position, navigation and timing, national intelligence systems, force protection, tactical exploitation of national capabilities, aerial intelligence surveillance platforms, and target acquisition sensors for Joint/Army Forces and Combatant Commands/Service Component Commands including CENTCOM, SOCOM/JSOC, CYBERCOM, AFRICOM, EUCOM, and INDOPACOM.  

Major General (Ret.) Vollmecke is highly skilled in strategic planning and program management as well as Federal/DOD government contracting and proposal/business management.  He is extremely versatile and possesses in-depth knowledge about federal/DOD contracting and the government sector’s services.  He has strong strategic partnerships and relationships across the military as well as the broader intelligence community, industry, and Congress.  His former military assignments include multiple Army commands, Defense Agencies, and Joint Staff.  He is Joint Qualified, and his operational and combat deployments include OPERATION DESERT FALCON, IRAQI FREEDOM, and ENDURING FREEDOM/FREEDOM’s SENTINEL. 

Major General (Ret.) Vollmecke is currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MICROTECH, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and a part-time Outside Director on the Special Security Agreement (SSA) Board for Codan, Ltd.  Since his retirement in 2019, he has consulted across the aerospace and defense industry, supported M&A, worked corporate strategy for Peraton, and was a remote lecturer for the Naval Postgraduate School, School of Defense Management.