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Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger Commander Air Force Materiel Command


was commis- sioned in 1980 as a graduate of the Air Force Academy, and began her career as an engineer in acquisition. She held assignments at the Electronic Security Com- mand and Air Force Systems Command, then several posi- tions in the F-22 System Program Office and the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.


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She commanded ASC’s C-17 Systems Group, Mobility Systems Wing. She was service’s director of the Air Force Acquisition Center of Excellence at the Pentagon, then served as a director of the Air Force Materiel Command Intelligence and Requirements Directorate. She also served as vice com- mander.


Currently, Gen. Wolfenbarger commands 80,000 people and manages $60 billion annually, executing war fighter support through science and technology, weapon systems management, developmental test and evaluation, and depot maintenance and supply chain management. Prior, she was the military deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.


She earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed program management at the Defense Systems Management College. She also holds a master’s in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University.


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en. Janet Wolfenbarger


Lt. Gen. Judith A. Fedder Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support Headquarters U.S. Air Force


t. Gen. Judith Fedder is responsible to the chief of staff for leadership, man- agement and integration of Air Force logistics readiness, aircraft and missile maintenance, civil engineering and secu- rity forces, as well as setting policy and preparing budget estimates that reflect enhancements to productivity, combat readiness and quality of life for Air Force people.


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A career maintainer, she has served as an officer in charge of air- craft maintenance units and the chief of logistics management at the Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters for operations Proven Force and Provide Comfort in Turkey. Her commands in- clude the 65th Air Base Wing at Lajes Field, Portugal, where she also served as the sub-unified commander of U.S. Forces Azores.


Lt. Gen. Fedder has also served as director of logistics for Air Combat Command. Prior, she was director of logistics, deputy chief of staff for logistics, Installations and Mission Support. She is a 1980 graduate of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at Michigan State University.


Lt. Gen. Susan Helms Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command


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t. Gen. Susan Helms leads 20,500 personnel responsible for missile warning, satellite operations, space launch and range operations. Selected by NASA in 1990, she became an astronaut in 1991. In 1993, by then an Air Force major and a member of the space shuttle Endeavour crew, she became the first U.S. military woman in space. She flew on STS-54 (1993), STS-64 (1994), STS-78 (1996) and STS-101 (2000), and served aboard the International Space Sta- tion as a member of the Expedition-2 crew (2001). A veteran of five space flights, Helms has logged 211 days in space, includ- ing a spacewalk of eight hours and 56 minutes, a world record.


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