Mr. Richard W. Lombardi is the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, Management and Deputy Chief Management Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Lombardi exercises the Under Secretary's Chief Management Officer responsibility for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Air Force business operations. In that role, he advises Air Force senior leadership on establishing strategic performance goals and managing Air Force-wide cross-functional activities to meet those goals. He also serves as the Air Force’s Director of Business Transformation, overseeing implementation of continuous process improvement initiatives Air Force wide.

Mr. Lombardi was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He entered the Air Force in 1980 after receiving his commission as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts. Mr. Lombardi has been assigned to acquisition management positions at the Air Armament Center, Electronic Systems Center and Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, as well as acquisition logistics positions at the San Antonio Air Logistics Center. He retired from the Air Force as a colonel in July 2004 and entered federal civil service. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2005. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Lombardi served as Special Assistant for the Invisible Combat Wounds Initiative, Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.