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Lisa Stephens Disbrow is the former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force. From January to May 2017, she served as the Acting Secretary of the Air Force until Heather Wilson assumed the office. Previously, Ms. Disbrow served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller. From 1995 to 2014, she held a variety of positions on the Joint Staff as a senior civilian, including the Joint Staff Vice Director for Force Structure, Resources and Assessment. While assigned to the Joint Staff, Ms. Disbrow was detailed to the president’s National Security Advisor as the special advisor for policy implementation and execution at the White House, where she assisted in planning and implementing the National Security Strategy.

Ms. Disbrow currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Mercury Systems, Perspecta, BlackBerry, and the Logistics Management Institute (LMI). She is a Senior Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and is the Chair of Mitre Corporation’s U.S. Air Force Advisory Board.

Ms. Disbrow is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and she served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1984 to 2008, primarily in the intelligence field. Following Operation Desert Storm, she left active service, continued to serve in the US Air Force Reserve and contribute to the intelligence community both as a reserve officer and as a senior systems engineer for the National Reconnaissance Office.