TechNet Cyber 2026

Jenniffer Minks
Deputy Director for C5I
The Joint Staff, J6


Ms. Minks serves as the Deputy Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber Integration (DD C5I), within Directorate for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers/Cyber, Joint Staff J6. She supports and advises the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding Joint Command and Control requirements; interoperability of legacy and future Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) with Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems, joint warfighting systems and cyber; oversees the DoD requirements for Joint Fires, Joint Close Air Support and Combat Identification mission areas, and supports accelerated joint warfighting development through capability assessments, in order to achieve a coherent Joint Force. Appointed to the Senior Executive Service in June 2025, she served as the Assistant Deputy Director for DD C5I. Ms. Minks served on active duty from 1993 to 2016, in a variety of U.S. Air Force Communications and Cyber assignments. She deployed to Saudi Arabia as the Operations Group Executive Officer; Kyrgyzstan as the Communications Squadron Commander; to Afghanistan as the Chief, Afghan Cyber Defense Cell, and completed a 1-year assignment working communications requirements in S. Korea. She was a squadron commander both in-garrison and deployed, as well as a deputy group commander while in Germany. Additionally, she served on the Headquarters Air Staff as an action officer supporting the development of the Air Force’s POM submission and the A6 Commander’s Action Group. She culminated her military career on the Joint Staff. The first assignment was with the J6 working FMN and Cyber projects. Her final two years were as the J7’s Chief, Cyberspace Environment Division, with the Joint Information Operations (Cyber) Range where she worked with all the Combatant Commands, Services, agencies, academia and industry in support of Cyber training, test and evaluation requirements. Ms. Minks is a graduate of Texas Christian University, receiving a double Bachelor of Science Degree. She is also a graduate of the US Air Force War College, US Air Force Command and Staff College and the Joint Forces Staff College and holds two Master of Science degrees, the latter from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Additionally, she is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School and Johns Hopkins Leading Data and AI-Enabled Organizations, Senior pilot training program while also holding a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

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