[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 10, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E324-E325]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING BRUCE BUSLER

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                         HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 10, 2024

  Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to celebrate the career of Mr. 
Bruce Busler who is retiring after 14 years of civil service as the 
director of the Joint Deployment Process and Analysis Center at United 
States Transportation Command.
  Bruce is a once-in-a-generation leader who has made a 
transformational impact on the Defense Transportation System and the 
Department of Defense at large. He shaped programs necessary for 
mobility capabilities such as airlift, sealift and surface transport to 
support the national defense strategy.
  In his efforts to support the Joint Deployment and Distribution 
Enterprise, Mr. Busler spearheaded operational analysis and decision-
making initiatives through harnessing the power of data for the Joint 
Force. These efforts through the Enterprise Data Science initiative 
enhanced modeling and simulation capabilities to garner effectiveness, 
efficiency, and synchronization globally.
  Bruce is a strategic thinker who can convey complex concepts into 
readily understood terms for senior leaders to forge consensus for 
action while also leading a diverse organization across multiple 
commands. His executive leadership can be distilled down as a visionary 
data architect leveraging ``big data'' analysis to persuasively advance 
mobility capability needs in a collaborative manner to meet national 
requirements for global transportation with high-impact results.
  Bruce's accomplishments are countless, but for the Congress, he led 
both the 2018 and 2020 NDAA directed mobility studies evaluating the 
capabilities critical to deploying and sustaining U.S. military forces 
at optimal levels. Throughout these efforts, he meticulously mapped out 
the requirements needed to deploy, and redeploy our military and 
requirements for a prolonged recapitalization effort to revitalize an 
aging sealift fleet in support of our National Defense. Additionally, 
he linked critical wartime patient movement operations into an end-to-
end airlift cycle ensuring Critical Care Air Transport Teams were 
available when needed to treat our most precious assets, our military 
personnel and their families. Bruce also delivered a first-of-its-kind 
fuel assessment study focusing on the fuel distribution challenges 
within the Indo-Pacific region. Finally, for only the third time in its 
history, based on Bruce's predictive analytics and

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modeling, in 2021 U.S. Transportation Command activated the Civil 
Reserve Air Fleet to augment the Afghan refugee evacuation, the largest 
non-combatant evacuation operation in U.S. history rescuing 124,000 
refugees in just 14 days.
  In addition to his 27 honorable years served in the Air Force as a 
colonel and command pilot with over 3,800 flight hours, Bruce set the 
standard for mastery of the Defense Transportation System. His ability 
to deploy data to anticipate the changing strategic environment while 
grappling with resource priorities has been key to identifying and 
resolving mobility enterprise challenges. Bruce is a true leader in 
transportation. Mr. Speaker, I ask you to join me in thanking Mr. Bruce 
Busler for over 41 years of dedicated and faithful service to our great 
Nation.

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