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General Ellen M. Pawlikowski

Commander, Air Force Materiel Command

G eneral Ellen M. Pawlikowski serves as Management Office for the Assistant to the Secretary

of Defense for Atomic Energy and as Deputy Assistant
Commander, Air Force Materiel Command,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Office of the Secretary of Defense. Her leadership
The command employs some 80,000 people and to the Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation,
manages sixty billion dollars annually, executing assignments included Program Director of the
the critical mission of warfighter support through Airborne Laser Program; Commander of the Military
leading-edge science and technology, cradle-to-grave Satellite Communications Systems Wing; Deputy
life cycle weapon systems management, world-class Director of the National Reconnaissance Office;
developmental test and evaluation, and world-class Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory; and
depot maintenance and supply chain management. most recently Commander of the Space and Missile
Systems Center.
General Pawlikowski entered the Air Force in 1978
through the ROTC program at the New Jersey Institute General Pawlikowski is nationally recognized for
of Technology. She then attended the University of her leadership in the US science and technology
California at Berkeley and received a Doctorate in community. She is a Fellow of the American Institute
chemical engineering in December 1981,entering of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the
active duty at McClellan AFB, California, in April 1982. National Academy of Engineers.
General Pawlikowski’s career has spanned a wide Prior to her current assignment, General Pawlikowski
variety of technical management, leadership and staff was the Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant
positions including command at the wing and center Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the
levels. She has served as Director of the Acquisition Pentagon, Washington, DC.

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