Jeffrey R. Sick, a member of the Department of Defense Senior Executive Service, is the Director of Logistics, Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC), Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Mr. Sick acts as the center integrator to coordinate the broad range of center logistics capabilities for a geographically dispersed workforce of 43,000 personnel across three Air Logistics Complexes, two supply chain wings, and three Air Base Wings. The Logistics Directorate prioritizes center goals, objectives and integrates the center’s critical capability areas: Strategic Planning, Resource Management, Process Management and Guidance and Sustainment Performance Management, Logistics Operations and Weapons System Integration. The Logistics Directorate drives the center to standardize and integrate its planning activities, resources, policies and procedures. These capabilities work in concert to ensure the center plans and executes to be effective and efficient.

 

Mr. Sick joined the Air Force Sustainment Center in 2017. He has over 31 years of experience and has served in a variety of positions to include program management, squadron command, deputy materiel group command, Maintenance group command and culminating as the Logistics Directorate Vice Commander. He has held tactical, strategic and executive level leadership positions across the Department of Defense. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Sick was the Director of Depot Modernization and Supply Chain Processes Division, Air Force Sustainment Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

 

1987 Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Ma. 1988 Aircraft Maintenance Officers Procedures Course, Chanute AFB, IL.

1995 Masters of Science degree in Aeronautics, Embry Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL. 1995 Squadron Officers School, Maxwell AFB, AL.

1999 Masters degree in Military Art/History, Air Command &Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 1999 Air Command & Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL.

2005 Air War College, by correspondence

2006 National Defense Fellow, Matthew B. Ridgeway Center, Graduate School of Public and Int’l Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2016 Defense Acquisition University, DAWIA Level 3 course, Ft Belvoir VA

 

1996 Certified Acquisition Professional “Level “III” Acquisition Logistics 1997 Certified Acquisition Professional “Level “II” Program Management 2016 Certified Acquisition Professional “Level “III” Program Management

 

June 1988 – Nov 1988, Student, Aircraft Maintenance Officer Course, Chanute AFB, IL

Dec 1988 – Oct 1990, Maintenance Supervisor, 509th Avionics Maintenance Squadron, Pease AFB, NH

Nov 1990 – Oct 1993, OIC, 28th Organizational Maintenance Squadron, Ellsworth AFB, SD

Nov 1993-Dec 1996, Chief, JOINT STARS Tech Order Program Office, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, MA

Dec 1996 – Jul 1998, Exec Officer, Electronic Systems Center (ESC), Hanscom, AFB, MA

Aug 1998 – Jun 1999, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB AL

Jul 1999 - Jun 2002, Squadron Maintenance Officer and Commander, 62d Aircraft Generation Squadron, McChord AFB, WA

Jul 2002 – Jul 2005, Chief, Joint Planning (CCJ4-P), HQ USCENTCOM, MacDill AFB, FL

Aug 2005 – Jun 2006, NATIONAL DEFENSE FELLOW, Ridgway Center, UPITT, PA

Jun 2006 – Apr 2007, Dep Director, 884th Combat Sustainment Group, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill AFB, UT

Apr 2007 – Jul 2009, Commander, 76th Commodities Maintenance Group, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker AFB, OK

Jul 2009 – 2012, Vice Commander, Air Force Global Logistics Support Center, Scott AFB, IL

July 2012 – June 2014, Vice Director, Logistics Directorate, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker AFB, OK

Jun 2014 – Sep 2017, Director, Program Management Competency, (NAVAIR 1.0), Fleet Readiness Center East, Cherry Point, NC.

Sep 2017 – April 2020, Director, Depot Modernization and Supply Chain Processes Division

April 2020 – Present, Director, Logistics Directorate, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker AFB, OK

 

Legion of Merit

Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster

Joint Service Achievement Medal

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal

 

1996 – Air Force Lieutenant General O’Neil Award for Acquisition Excellence

2000 – Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award (Aircraft Maintenance Excellence) 2002 – Led 62d AGS to selection as BEST Medium Sized Unit in Department of Defense 2003 - Air Mobility Command’s Lance P. Sijan Award Winner (Leadership Excellence)

 

Second Lieutenant June 9, 1988

First Lieutenant May 9, 1990

Captain May 1, 1992

Major Aug. 1, 1998

Lieutenant Colonel Feb. 1, 2003

Colonel Jan. 1, 2007

GS-15 June 06, 2014

SES, April 12, 2020

 

(Current as of April 2020)