Carl Buhler is the CEO of Buhler Consulting, LLC and Bionic Lift, LLC. Additionally, he is a partner with Grey Beards Associates, plus serves on Advisory Boards for four companies.

Buhler Consulting, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides consulting services using real-world experience, subject matter expertise, and access to a network of professionals with aerospace and defense experience in the areas of logistics, production, technology, aircraft maintenance, SBIR / STTR, sustainment, modernization, and supply chain management.  Buhler Consulting, LLC specializes in creating innovative solutions; innovation; technology insertion (Air Force and DoD); Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR); M&A efforts; strategic planning & program management.

Also, Bionic Lift, LLC is a veteran-owned and operated small business focused on ‘mechanizing the workforce” through a variety of offerings.

Carl is a retired US Air Force Brigadier General (Brig Gen) who served as an Air Force depot commander (Ogden ALC) and as a two-time Air Force major command (MAJCOM) director of logistics, engineering, and force protection.  Carl‘s first MAJCOM director position was at Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from 2012 to 2014. Also, from 2015 to 2017, he served as a director at Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC) at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. In this role, he was responsible for ACC’s logistics, transportation, supply, aircraft maintenance, munitions, force protection, and civil engineering functions while he supported a wide variety of aircraft, like the A-10, F-15C, F-15E, F-16, F-22, F-35, MQ-1/9, RQ-4, U-2, E-3/-8/-9, RC/OC/WC-135, P-9A, E/HC-130, and HH-60. Carl also worked with various staff agencies, MAJCOMs, the inspector general, and wings to increase sortie production, sortie generation & readiness. Additionally, Brigadier General (ret) Buhler guided Air Combat Command’s infrastructure investment program and ensured security force units were combat-ready for rapid employment and deployment.

Prior to his ACC assignment, Brig Gen (ret) Buhler served as the commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. As commander, he led a team of approximately 7,500 personnel to perform depot repair, overhaul, and modification of the A-10, C-130, F-16, F-22, F-35 and T-38 aircraft, the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system, and a wide range of commodities. These commodities included landing gear, wheels and brakes, rocket motors, air munitions and guided bombs, photonics equipment, training devices, software, electronics, avionics, instruments, hydraulics, power systems and other aerospace components. While at Hill AFB, his responsibilities extended to maintenance operations at remote sites in Japan, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, California, Florida, and ICBM wings located in Wyoming, North Dakota and Montana.

Over the course of nearly 30 years in the Air Force, Carl’s various roles included serving as commander at bases in Georgia and Southwest Asia, deploying in support of the ceasefire phase of Operation Desert Storm, and in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.  He also served as the maintenance officer for the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, “Thunderbirds.” Furthermore, he was recognized as the U.S. Air Force Lt. General Leo Marquez Outstanding CGO Munitions Maintenance Officer of the Year and led his unit to earn the Air Combat Command Maintenance Effectiveness Award in 2004, plus the Air Force Maintenance Effectiveness Award in 2005, both for maintenance effectiveness in the fighter aircraft category.

Carl holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Valdosta State College (now University), where he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2003. He also holds three master’s degrees — in human relations, national security and strategic studies, and national resource strategy. Brig Gen (ret) Carl Buhler also completed a number of executive courses, at several universities, such as the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee, and Harvard University.

In his spare time, Carl enjoys watching NFL, ACC, and SEC football, spending time with his family, hiking, computers, and reading military & general history books. He is an avid Washington Football Team fan and is hopeful of many bright seasons ahead for the team!