Dionel M. Aviles

Dionel M. Aviles


United States Under Secretary of the Navy
In office October 8, 2004 – May 19, 2009
President	George W. Bush Barack Obama
Preceded by	Susan Livingstone
Succeeded by	Robert Work
Personal details
Born	January 23, 1961 (aged 56)
Education	United States Naval Academy Mechanical Engineering(BS)

Dionel M. Aviles (born January 23, 1961) was the United States Under Secretary of the Navy from October 8, 2004 to May 19, 2009.

A native of Bryan, Texas, Dionel M. Aviles graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1983. He subsequently spent 1983 through 1988 as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy. He retired from the Navy in 1988, though he remained an officer of the United States Navy Reserve.

After leaving the Navy, Aviles initially worked as a production support engineer, working on the Standard Missile and Phalanx CIWS programs. He then joined the Naval Air Systems Command, where he worked on developing the BGM-109 Tomahawk as part of the Naval Air Systems Command's Cruise Missile Project.

From 1991 to 1995, Aviles worked in the National Security Division of the Office of Management and Budget within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He began as the budget examiner of the Navy's procurement and R&D budgets. He ended as the division director responsible for the defense accounts used during the President of the United States' proposed United States federal budget. During this period, he earned an MBA from the George Washington University in 1993.