Mr. Gregory P. Zelnio

Mr. Gregory Zelnio distinguished himself through exceptional civilian service throughout his 33-year career with the government. Mr. Zelnio began his federal career in October 1982 with the U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command as a chemical engineer in the Industrial Readiness Directorate.

Beginning in 2003, Mr. Zelnio advanced in leadership positions and became the Director of Quality. His major responsibilities included production quality, ammunition surveillance, Ammunition Stockpile Reliability program and the ammunition malfunction program. His organization provided ammo quality guidance worldwide through his Surveillance Division along with providing overall quality guidance to the JMC facilities. His key accomplishments included leading the organization in obtaining ISO 9001-2008 registration: the first within the JMC.

Under his leadership, through the Demilitarization and Ammunition Peculiar Equipment Management (APE) Division, JMC successfully demilitarized all known CONUS untagged plastic explosive items. Under his direction, the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Army ammunition organizations conducted multiple thorough and exhaustive searches through their plastic explosive inventories at all levels of storage to identify, remove, and destroy untagged, non-exempt plastic explosive assets.

Mr. Zelnio finished his stored career as the Deputy to the Munitions and Logistics Readiness Center (MLRC) of Joint Munitions Command, an organization of more than 400 personnel, he was a key partner with Commanders, senior leaders, higher headquarters, and other service representatives. The MLRC executes logistics sustainment, readiness, and acquisition support for conventional munitions in support of the U.S. military services, allies and friendly nations. Mr. Zelnio supported JMC’s restructure and led efforts to grow the logistics mission globally. He was the proponent of the logistics industrial base strategic plan to support long term right sizing strategies. Mr. Zelnio’s ability to collaborate and work transformational and strategic issues were exceptional.

Mr. Zelnio retired in 2015.