Dr. Mortin is the Chief of the Reliability Branch at the U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. In this position, he is responsible for identifying improvements that will result in increased Army/Department of Defense weapon system reliability. Dr. Mortin’s branch is the lead for the Army’s Physics-of-Failure Program, the Army Materiel Command’s Center of Excellence for Reliability Growth, and the Department of the Army Executive Agent for Reliability and Maintainability Standardization. Dr. Mortin has authored and co-authored multiple papers on reliability and logistics modeling.

In 1986, Dr. Mortin earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he received his M.S. Degree in Statistics from the University of Delaware. In 1999, he earned his Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army School of Engineering and Logistics Maintainability Engineering Program.