BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID B. WARNER Brig. Gen. David B. Warner is the Director, Communications and Information, and Chief Information Officer, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. General Warner is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the Air Force's space and cyber forces with communications and information capability, including the Air Force's new cyber numbered air force supporting U.S. Strategic Command. He also acts on behalf of the Commander, Air Force Space Command, as the Air Force's Designated Approval Authority for all systems connecting to the Air Force network enterprise. General Warner entered the Air Force as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at Southwest Texas State University. He has pursued a wide-ranging career including interoperability test director for the E-3A and the Air Force representative to the Joint and Allied Data Link Standards Configuration Control Boards. He has also served as Chief of the Information Assurance Division, Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Director of Communications and Information, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, U.S. Joint Forces Command. The general has commanded at the squadron and group levels. Prior to his current assignment, he was Director, Command and Control Programs, Defense Information Systems Agency. EDUCATION 1980 Bachelor of Business Administration degree, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos 1983 Master of Business Administration degree, Central State University, Edmond, Okla. 1986 Distinguished graduate, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1991 Joint Professional Military Education Phase II, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. 1992 Distinguished graduate, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2000 Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. 2003 Senior Executive Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ASSIGNMENTS 1. June 1980 - June 1984, software training manager, program manager and Chief, Data Link Interoperability Testing, 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla. 2. June 1984 - June 1987, analyst, Data Links Standards, Tactical Air Forces Interoperability Group, Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Va. 3. June 1987 - June 1991, instructor and Chief of Leadership Curriculum; and executive officer to the Commandant, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 4. August 1991 - August 1992, student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 5. August 1992 - August 1995, executive officer to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Logistics Division; NATO Airborne Early Warning staff officer, Air Section Operations and Logistics Division; program manager, Management Information Systems, Communications and Information Systems Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium 6. August 1995 - July 1997, Commander, 45th Communications Squadron, Patrick AFB, Fla. 7. August 1997 - July 1998, student, Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. 8. July 1998 - April 2000, Chief, Information Assurance Division, Systems Directorate, Air Force Communications and Information, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 9. April 2000 - June 2002, Commander, 50th Communications Group, Schriever AFB, Colo. 10. July 2002 - January 2004, Director, Communications and Information, Headquarters U.S. Forces in Europe, Ramstein Air Base, Germany 11. January 2004 - August 2005, Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Va. 12. August 2005 - January 2006, Deputy Director for Operations and Support Integration, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, Washington, D.C. 13. January 2006 - January 2008, Director, Command and Control Programs, Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va. 14. January 2008 - present, Director, Communications and Information, and Chief Information Officer, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo. SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS 1. August 1992 - August 1995, executive officer to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Logistics Division; NATO Airborne Early Warning staff officer, Air Section Operations and Logistics Division; program manager, Management Information Systems, Communications and Information Systems Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium, as a major 2. January 2004 - August 2005, Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Va., as a colonel MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS Distinguished Service Medal Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION Second Lieutenant May 17, 1980 First Lieutenant June 16, 1982 Captain June 16, 1984 Major Oct. 1, 1991 Lieutenant Colonel Nov. 1, 1996 Colonel April 1, 2000 Brigadier General Sept. 2, 2006 (Current as of June 2010)