Jullian “Dean” Revell serves as the Lead Architect for the Air Force Weapons Government Reference Architecture (GRA), a product of the Digital Acquisition and Sustainment Office of the Armament Directorate (AFMC/AFLCMC/EBRD). He leads collaborative efforts with industry and government partners across the DoD to ensure the Weapons GRA and associated products reflect best practices and comply with DoD regulations and standards. The Weapons GRA enables weapon acquisition programs to implement Model-Based Engineering practices and achieve the Air Force's goals of Digital Materiel Management.
Dean has seven years of experience as a civil servant, specializing in systems modeling with SysML, systems acquisition, and test and evaluation. Prior to his current role, Dean was integral to the development of technical requirements and contract language for the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), a MOSA-compliant weapon system with a development contract valued at $705m. He served as the technical lead for Systems Agility and Architecture as part of proposal evaluation and led MBSE efforts for SiAW post-award. Dean holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from Florida State University.