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- Thomas Philip Christie (born May 28, 1934 in Pensacola, Florida) is an American defense analyst who worked for the U.S. government. Christie graduated from Spring Hill College with a B.S. degree in mathematics in May 1955 and from New York University with an M.S. degree in applied mathematics in September 1962. In the 1960s, he worked for the United States Air Force at Eglin AFB as an analyst in the Ballistics Division at the Air Proving Ground Center. He later moved to other positions at Eglin AFB, before moving to the Pentagon. Christie worked at the Pentagon for more than three decades beginning in the early 1970s. Over the course of his career he served as director, Program Integration, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) where he was responsible for developing processes for managing the defense acquisition system. He also served in two separate positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation) first as director, Tactical Air Division, and then deputy assistant secretary of Defense/deputy director (General Purpose Programs). Christie served for nine years as director of the operational evaluation division (OED) at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally funded research and development center. Christie was responsible for independent analyses of more than two hundred major test and evaluation programs and was also involved in weapons testing. Christie became director of Operational Test and Evaluation in June 2001. In this capacity, he served as the principal staff assistant and primary advisor to the Secretary of Defense on testing of Department of Defense weapon systems. His responsibilities included prescribing policies and procedures for the conduct of operational test and evaluation, live-fire testing and evaluation, the composition and operations of the major range and test facility base, and the configuration of the test and evaluation infrastructure within the Pentagon. He retired from this position in 2005. (en)
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- Thomas Philip Christie (born May 28, 1934 in Pensacola, Florida) is an American defense analyst who worked for the U.S. government. Christie graduated from Spring Hill College with a B.S. degree in mathematics in May 1955 and from New York University with an M.S. degree in applied mathematics in September 1962. In the 1960s, he worked for the United States Air Force at Eglin AFB as an analyst in the Ballistics Division at the Air Proving Ground Center. He later moved to other positions at Eglin AFB, before moving to the Pentagon. (en)
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