Maj Gen Sandra E.
Finan, USAF
Maj Gen Sandra E. Finan, USAF
Deputy CIO, C4 and Information Infrastructure, Capabilities
Department of Defense
Maj. Gen. Sandra E. Finan Major General Sandra E. Finan is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) and Information Infrastructure Capabilities, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington D.C. In this capacity, she provides expertise and broad guidance on policy, programmatic, and technical issues relating to C4&IIC in order to achieve and maintain information dominance for the Department. She also manages efforts defining DoD policies and strategies for design, architecture, interoperability standards, capability development, and sustainment of critical C2 and communications for nuclear and non-nuclear strategic strike, and Defense and National Leadership Command Capabilities.
General Finan entered the Air National Guard in 1982 as an enlisted cryptographic equipment repairperson. She received her Air Force commission in 1985 as a distinguished graduate of Officer Training School. She has served in a variety of space and nuclear assignments in missile crew operations; training and evaluations; satellite command and control; and satellite operations. The general has held senior staff assignments as the Air Force Global Strike Command Inspector General and the Air Force Space Command Director of Nuclear Operations.
Her commands include a space operations squadron, a missile wing and a center. General Finan has deployed to the Combined Air Operations Center in Southwest Asia as the Director of Space Forces in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. Previously, she was the Commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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