Bob Daigle
Former Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
Robert “Bob” Daigle is an Executive at Rebellion Defense and a Principal at Pallas Advisors. Most recently, he was the third Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE.)
Prior to his role at CAPE, Mr. Daigle served as a Professional Staff Member on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), where he directly supported the Chairman by leading the committee’s defense reform team. During his tenure, the reform team prepared two stand-alone bills aimed at improving the agility of the defense acquisition system to respond to emerging threats and technological opportunities.
Before joining HASC, Mr. Daigle served as the Executive Director of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission. He was instrumental in proposing reforms, the majority of which were enacted by Congress, to improve military retirement, health care, and wartime readiness while saving $12 billion annually. Mr. Daigle served previously in CAPE as the Director of the Program Resources and Information Systems Management Division. He also served as the Special Assistant to the Director of CAPE and as an operations research specialist focused on military force structure, manpower, personnel compensation, reporting processes, and IT systems.
Mr. Daigle has also held leadership roles in several financial analysis and consulting firms. He served as the Executive Vice President of Advanced Securities Consulting, where he led quantitative analyses of bank, broker, and pension fund investment programs and provided expertise in asset/ liability management, risk management, securities finance, cash management, and corporate governance. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President for the Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution, where he oversaw design, production, and long-term agendas for research, data acquisition, constituent outreach, legislative and regulatory outreach, and research dissemination. Earlier in his career, Mr. Daigle was the Director of Analytics for ASTEC Consulting in New York, NY and Burlington, VT. With ASTEC, he designed proprietary quantitative performance and risk models for pension fund investment strategies.
From 1992 – 1994, Mr. Daigle served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army at Bad Hersfeld, Germany and Fort Hood, TX. He earned six medals and certificates of achievement to include the Expert Infantry Badge. Mr. Daigle holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Vermont, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and a Master of Science in International Security Studies from Georgetown University. Mr. Daigle and his wife Veronica have two sons.