The Honorable Lisa S. Disbrow
25th Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Lisa Disbrow retired as the 25th Senate-confirmed Under Secretary of the United States Air Force in June 2017. Concurrent with that position, from January 2017 through May 2017, Ms. Disbrow served as the Acting Secretary of the United States Air Force. Ms. Disbrow previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller. Throughout her 32-year national security career, she held senior civilian positions on the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff leading joint warfighting requirements and capabilities development initiatives as the Vice Director of J8, in the National Reconnaissance Office as a Systems Engineer, and on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush. Ms. Disbrow joined the United States Air Force in 1985, and served on active and reserve duty in intelligence, programming and operational planning positions, retiring in 2008 as a Colonel from the US Air Force Reserve. Ms. Disbrow currently serves on the Board of Directors of CACI, a provider of C4ISR and digital technology and expertise to the US government; Mercury Systems, Inc., a commercial provider of secure sensor and safety critical mission processing subsystems; and BlackBerry Limited, a commercial provider of software to secure Internet of Things devices, data and communications, where she is the Audit Committee Chair. Ms Disbrow is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL), an Appointed Member of the President’s Export Council, and Chairs the DOD Reserve Forces Policy Board, as well as the NobleReach Foundation Board.