Theodore F. Marz
Software Engineering Institute
Ted Marz serves as a senior member of the technical staff in the Software Acquisition Practices Initiative of the Transforming Software Acquisition Practice and Policy Directorate, within the Software Solutions Division.
Marz joined the SEI in 1996, doing applied research in fault-tolerant and real-time systems and providing advice and assistance on software-related issues to numerous defense and intelligence customers, most recently in space-related activities.
Marz is also active in the standards development and standards setting communities, participating in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Chief Information Officer Technical Integration Committee, Standards Subcommittee. Marz is the agency FFRDC lead for standards at the National Reconnaissance Office and was co-chair of the Air-Land-Sea-Space and Process Engineering and Management Technical Working Groups (TWG) of the Joint Enterprise Standards Committee. Marz remains highly active in those TWGs.
Marz is on the Stakeholder Advisory Committee of the Space Systems Modular Open Systems Approach Interoperability Alliance with representatives from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Marz is also the NRO representative to the Defense Standardization Program. Marz actively participates in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standards development committee for IEEE 828 (Configuration Management) and is on the balloting committee of several other space and systems engineering-related IEEE standardization projects. Marz also served as an Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointee as Software Acquisition Management division chief for the joint DoD/NRO Space RADAR project.
Prior to joining the SEI, Marz was a researcher and software developer of aircrew training systems, contributing to the successful internetworking of formerly stand-alone simulators and developing audio and radio simulations as well as interfaces for the stimulation and control of embedded avionics.
Marz holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the College of Engineering, Michigan State University.
Rev 07/08/2025