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KERRY KELLEY

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Kerry Kelley, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The directorate is responsible for providing and assuring global-integrated C4 systems capabilities for USSTRATCOM to execute support of full spectrum operations spanning global strike, space, ISR, and cyberspace operations. She is responsible for management of more than $20 billion of on-orbit communications assets. Ms. Kelley also translates Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff xommunications and information policies and applies them across the command.  In addition, she is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing USSTRATCOM enterprise information environment support for Chief Information Officer initiatives, policy, and guidance. This includes Clinger-Cohen Act compliance and information resource management, and information technology governance process, including its capital planning, business process improvements, and portfolio management.

Ms. Kelley entered federal civil service in 1985. Her experience includes operations analysis in support of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I and II, 1992 Presidential Nuclear Initiatives and the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review. She also has experience in Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration programs; Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat technologies; command long-range planning and command science and technology mission needs list.  She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2007. Prior to her current assignment, she was Associate Director, Capability and Resource Integration.

EDUCATION
1984 Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics, Creighton University
1985 Master of Science degree in operations research, Northwestern University

CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. September 1985 - November 1988, operations research analyst, Office of Science and Research, Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
2. July 1989 - July 1990, operations research analyst, Strategic Mission Planning Task Force, SAC, Offutt AFB, Neb.
3. July 1990 - June 1992, force structure analyst, Plans and Resources Directorate, SAC, Offutt AFB, Neb.
4. June 1992 - June 1995, force structure analyst, Force Assessments Division, Plans and Policy Directorate, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, Neb.
5. June 1995 - March 1997, Chief, Science and Technology Branch, Plans and Policy Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
6. March 1997 - December 2000, Chief, Long Range Planning Branch, Policy Division, Plans and Policy Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
7. December 2000 - June 2003, Science and Technology Adviser, Programs and Requirements Division, Plans and Policy Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
8. June 2003 - November 2004, Chief, Space and Missile Defense Analysis Branch, Force Assessments Division, Policy, Resources and Requirements Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
9. November 2004 - September 2005, Chief, Experimentation and Strategy Division, Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
10. September 2005 - June 2006, Deputy Chief, Future Capabilities Division, Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
11. June 2006 - July 2007, Deputy Chief and Senior Technical Adviser NETOPS/NETWAR Division, Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
12. July 2007 - May 2010, Associate Director, Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.
13. May 2010 - present, Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Neb.

AWARDS AND HONORS
Air Force Special Act/Service Award
Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Decoration for Exemplary Civilian Service

(Current as of March 2011)




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