Posted on January 21, 2026
The Alaska District selected John Raso as Deputy District Engineer for Program Management (DPM) and Chief of the Program and Projects Management Division for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District in January 2026. In this position he provides oversight of the district’s various programs and activities throughout the state and is responsible for ensuring efficient and timely delivery of military, civil works, environmental, and other agency construction projects with an average annual value in excess of $800 million.
Raso has extensive experience in the Alaska District. From 2014-2016, he served as a Deputy Program Manager with the C-17 foreign military sales program supporting construction of the C-17 beddown installation in New Delhi, India. From 2017-2019, he served as a Military Branch project manager assigned to the F-35 beddown program at Eielson Air Force Base. Most recently, he served as the Chief of the Military Program and Projects Management Branch and provided oversight to the Army, Air Force, and Missile Defense Programs throughout the Alaska area of operations between 2020 and 2025.
He retired from the U.S. Army in 2016. As an active-duty officer he worked in multiple challenging assignments, including numerous tours with USACE. His previous assignments with USACE include the Emergency Operations Center at Headquarters; the Baltimore District as a Deputy Resident Engineer at Walter Reed Army Hospital and then as Deputy District Commander in the Executive Office; and as an OIC with the Afghanistan Engineer District – South.
Raso deployed multiple times during his Army career. In 2020, he completed an 18-month deployment with USACE as the CSTC-A Program Manager in the Afghanistan District. Other overseas assignments included leading Army Engineers in South Korea and Iraq and duty in a security assistance/security cooperation organization in Saudi Arabia.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a master’s in management and human resources from Webster’s University, and a master’s in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is also a certified Project Management Professional and a member of the Project Management Institute and the Society of American Military Engineers. Raso is a graduate of the 2022 Pacific Ocean Division ULDP3 Program.
Raso has been awarded multiple service awards, including the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal; the Bronze Star Medal; and numerous campaign related service medals. He also earned the Combat Action Badge, the Army Parachutist Badge, and received the Army Engineer Association’s Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal.
