Jennifer M. Aquinas, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director of Security, Special Program Oversight and Information Protection, Office of the Administrative Assistant, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Arlington, Virginia.

Ms. Aquinas served as an officer on active and reserve Air Force from 1996 to 2016 in a variety of Security Forces assignments. She entered federal civil service in 2008 with the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. She transferred to the Department of the Air Force in 2013 and was instrumental in standing up the Air Force Counter Insider Threat program and leading Department of Defense efforts in personnel vetting and security reform. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2020 as the Deputy Director, Security Special Program Oversight and Information Protection.

In her current position, she provides security leadership, policy direction, integration and oversight of the Department of the Air Force’s Special Access Programs and Information Protection Enterprise to protect the nation’s most sensitive information, technologies and capabilities. In this capacity, she is also the Functional Manager for the Department of the Air Force’s more than 2,000-member civilian security community.