Thomas A. Lockhart Jr. is a member of the Senior Executive Service, and is the Director of Engineering and Technical Management, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. He enhances warfighter support as the center’s lead for nuclear systems andf digital engineering, weapon system integrity, cyber security, test and evaluation, workforce development, technology insertion and multi-domain system support for Minuteman III, Air Launched Cruise Missile, and Command and Control.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Lockhart was the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Director for both its plans and programs directorate and its strategic development planning and experimentation directorate managing the processes that define Air Force Research Laboratory's $2 billion annual investment in technologies for future Air Force systems and enables the alignment of science and technology resources.

Mr. Lockhart served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his last tour as the NATO Resolute Support Essential Function for Sustainment, Kabul, Afghanistan, he exercised oversight of Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces sustainment for 385,000 Ministry of Defense and Interior military and police forces yearly budgets of over $3.2 billion.

Mr. Lockhart began his career in 1987 working as a journeyman engineer in training and simulation at Hill AFB, Utah. He has served as an engineer, chief engineer, acquisition program manager, group director, combatant command financial manager, deputy program executive officer and security cooperation director.

EDUCATION

1987 Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie

1992 Air Command and Staff College, Seminar, Air University, Montgomery, Ala.

1997 Air War College, Seminar, Air University, Montgomery, Ala.

2004 Master of Business Aviation Administration, Embry Riddle Aeronautica University, Daytona Beach, Fla.

2005 Graduate Certification for System Engineers, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

2009 Graduate Certification for Homeland Defense, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

CAREER CHRONOLOGY

1. 1987-1995, Design Engineer, Hill Air Force Base, Utah

2. 1995-1998, System Engineer, Training and Simulation Product Group, Hill AFB, Utah

3. 1998-1999, Acquisition Support Specialist, Training and Simulation Product Group, Hill AFB, Utah

4. 1999-2000, Chief Engineer, Training and Simulation Product Group, Hill AFB, Utah

5. 2000-2001, Chief Engineer, Telecommunications Product Group Manager, Hill AFB, Utah

6. 2001-2003, Chief Engineer, Space, Command, Control and Communication Directorate, Hill AFB, Utah

7. 2003-2004, System Engineer Practitioner, Air Force Institute of Technology, Center for System Engineering, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

8. 2004-2005, Deputy Director, Advanced Computational Analysis Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

9. 2005-2005, Transformation Advisory Group, Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

10. 2005-2008, Director and Deputy Director, 526th Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System Group, Hill AFB, Utah

11. 2008-2010, Assistant Director, Programs and Evaluation, NORAD-NORTHCOM, Peterson AFB, Colo

12. 2010-2011, Deputy Director, USF-I, Iraq Security Assistance Mission, Baghdad

13. 2011-2011, Deputy Director, USF-I, Office of Security Cooperation Iraq Transition Team, Baghdad

14. 2011-2014, Deputy PEO for Tankers, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

15. 2014-2017, Director, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

16. 2017-2019, Director of the Plans and Programs Directorate and Director of the Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

17. 2019-present, Director of Engineering and Technical Management, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Hill AFB, Utah