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Mr. Michael B. Donley is the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is the 22nd Secretary and was confirmed Oct. 2, 2008. He is responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force, including the organizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of its more than 334,000 men and women on active duty, 176,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, 170,000 civilians, and their families. He also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion.
GEN. NORTON A. SCHWARTZ became the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force in August 2008. The U.S. Air Force Academy and National War College graduate is a command pilot with more than 4,400 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. His career has included commands of the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and 11th Air Force, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska and U.S. Transportation Command, Scott AFB, Ill.
GEN. C. ROBERT KEHLER is commander Air Force Space Command. He is responsible for the development, acquisition and operation of the Air Force's space and missile systems. The general oversees a global network of satellite command and control, communications, missile warning and launch facilities, and ensures the combat readiness of America's intercontinental ballistic missile force.
LT. GEN. FRANK G. KLOTZ is the Commander, Global Strike Command. Previously he was the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, and Vice Commander Air Force Space Command. He also has commanded a Minuteman missile squadron, a missile launch task force, an operations group, a missile wing and a numbered air force and the Director for Nuclear Policy and Arms Control with the National Security Council at the White House.
LT. GEN. JOHN T. "TOM" SHERIDAN is the Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. He is responsible for managing the research, design, development, acquisition, and sustainment of space and missile systems, launch, command and control, and operational satellite systems. He is responsible for more than 6,000 employees nationwide and an annual total budget in excess of $10 billion. General Sheridan is the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space and is responsible for the Air Force Satellite Control Network; space launch and range programs; the Space-Based Infrared System Program; military satellite communication programs; the Global Positioning System; intercontinental ballistic missile programs; Defense Meteorological Satellite Program; the space superiority system programs and other emerging transformational space programs.
MAJ. GEN. RICHARD E. WEBBER is the Commander, 24th Air Force, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. General Webber is responsible for the Air Force's newest numbered air force which will provide combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces to plan and conduct cyberspace operations, and to extend, maintain and defend the Air Force portion of the global information grid. The general directs the activities of two wings and two combat communications groups, located at Lackland AFB, Tinker AFB, Okla., and Robins AFB, Ga.
MS. ERIC C. CONATON is the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. She was confirmed March 4, 2010. Ms. Conaton is responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, including the organizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of its more than 334,000 men and women on active duty, 176,000 members of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, 170,000 civilians, and their families. She also oversees the Air Force's annual budget of more than $110 billion and serves as acting Secretary of the Air Force in the Secretary's absence.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL ROBERT ELDER (USAF, retired) joined the research faculty at George Mason University following his retirement from the Air Force as the 47th Commander of 8th Air Force. As a professor with the System Architectures Laboratory he conducts research in the areas of cyber enterprise resiliency and the use of modeling to support national security decision-making. He also facilitates collaboration among public and private sectors as an advisor to the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana. As the Commander of 8th Air Force and U.S. Strategic Command’s Global Strike Component he was responsible for nine wings and one direct reporting unit with 270 aircraft and 41,000 active duty, civilian, and reserve personnel. General Elder served as the first commander of Air Force Network Operations and led the development of the cyberspace mission for the Air Force. He also served as the Air operations center commander and deputy air component commander for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. General Elder served as the Commandant of the Air War College, and holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Detroit.
Mark Gunzinger is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Mr. Gunzinger most recently served as a senior advisor to the Air Force for the 2010 QDR. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Transformation and Resources. Mr. Gunzinger has been a key player in every major defense review since the end of the Cold War. He supported the Air Force Secretary during the 1993 Bottom-Up Review, 1994 Commission on Roles and Missions, and the 2001 QDR. He is the principal author or co-author of multiple Defense Planning Guidance/Guidance for Development of the Force directives, the key strategic planning guidance documents that shape DoD force planning. 
JONNA DOOLITTLE HOPPES is the author of Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle—Aviation Pioneer and World War II Hero and Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from World War II. The granddaughter of General Jimmy Doolittle, she works at the Los Angeles Air Force Base, and lives in Newport Beach, California. 
Thomas C. Reed is a former Secretary of the Air Force, having served in that capacity during the Ford and Carter administrations. In the mid-seventies Reed was the youngest-ever Director the National Reconnaissance Office, an organization whose very existence was held to be secret until the end of the Cold War. During the eighties Reed was a Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy. 
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