David Zlowe

CGFM, Chief of Planning

Programming and Performance, U.S. Department of Defense

David Zlowe is a Senior Executive in the Department of Defense, where he is integrating performance

management into planning, programming, and budgeting. Previously, as a management consultant he led

government performance-based budgeting efforts for the world’s largest professional services firm. Mr. Zlowe has also worked in the Budget Committee of the US Senate and at policy research institutes. He performed his doctoral research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Peace Corps, investigating how these agencies formulated their budgets in the 1990’s.