Government Property has some WONDERFUL twists and turns to its PROPER application. Contracting Officers on the Government side of the house, and Contract Managers on the Corporate side of the house need to be aware of, knowledgeable in, and properly apply and comply with the requirements governing and managing this “stuff.”

Dr. Goetz received his BA and MA from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and his Doctorate (Ph.D.) from The Ohio State University in National Security Policy Studies and Adult Education.

He has served on the faculty of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) in Dayton, Ohio and previously the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, for nearly thirty years. Fully retiring from DAU in January of 2013.

Dr. Goetz has had extensive experience as a Property Administrator within the Department of Defense. He has traveled extensively through the United States and overseas researching the application of the Government Property Management Requirement. He has experienced Property Management up close and personal in the war zones of the Balkans and Iraq – as well as far flung operations in Japan, Guam, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to name just a few locations.

Based upon his research he has written and has had published over 100 articles and multiple course textbooks. His publications have included articles for numerous professional magazines and journals including articles for the National Contract Management Association and the National Property Management Association – with numerous articles receiving awards of Technical Excellence. He served as the National Editor of the “Property Professional,” an international publication, for twenty years and is now the Editor Emeritus. In July of 2013 the NPMA published the first book focusing on Defense Contract Property Management, entitled “Selected Reading in Defense Contract Property Management. And his second book was published in August of 2018 entitled, “Contract Property Systems Analysis, Self-Assessment, And Subcontractor Surveillance.”

Dr. Goetz was a Professor for the Defense Contract Property Management Series o f Courses offered at AFIT and DAU where he designed and developed curricula for the Department of Defense Industrial/Contract Property Series (GS-1103). In addition to Contract Property Management courses, hisexpertise also allowed him to lecture in Contract Law, Contract Management and the Executive Level Contract Management Courses. Dr. Goetz Chaired the DFARS Supplement 3 Rewrite Committee, where he was the principal author responsible for the creation of the Original DOD Property manual, DoD 4161.2-M used from 1990 to 2010 by all DoD Government Property Administrators in the performance of their jobs. And in 1995 was selected to be an original member of the FAR Part 45 Rewrite Committee under Ms. Eleanor Spector, Director of Defense Procurement.