Elizabeth Foster, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Deputy Director of Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Ms. Foster assists the Director in the leadership, management and integration of Total-Force logistics, engineering and force protection activities across the global mobility Air Force enterprise. The directorate also provides direct support to 18th Air Force, Air Mobility Command’s sole warfighting Numbered Air Force, and the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center, the Air Force’s Center of Excellence for en-route, contingency response and partnership capacity building mission sets.
Ms. Foster began her career in 1980 at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia. She entered the Air Force in 1982 at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas as a Professional Administrative Civil Service Exam trainee and has more than 30 years of Logistics and Supply Chain Management experience. She served in several supervisory positions at Kelly AFB until the C-5 workload transferred to Robins AFB, Georgia. While at Robins AFB, she served as the Chief of the C-5 Sustainment Division. Ms. Foster was selected to career broaden at Headquarters Air Combat Command and served as the Deputy Chief, Logistics Readiness Division (A4R) and Deputy Chief, Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Division (C2ISR), Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. She served as the Chief of Supply Programs Branch at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Prior to her current assignment, she was Chief, Resource Integration Division, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Ill.
EDUCATION
1979 Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, Albany State University, Albany, Ga.
1987 Master of Business Administration, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
1990 Air Command and Staff College, by seminar
1992 Air War College, by seminar
2014 Master of Science, Strategic Studies, Army War College, Carlisle, Pa.
2014 Army War College, Carlisle, Pa.
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. May 1980–December 1981, Data Transcriber, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Ga.
2. December 1981–October 1982, Computer Operator, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Ga.
3. October 1982–June 1988, Inventory Management Specialist, Material Management Division, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
4. June 1988–March l991, Chief Consumable Item Management Branch, Material Management Division, Kelly AFB, Texas
5. March 1991–March 1993, Logistics Management Specialist, LCCEP Career Broader, Logistic Supply Division, Langley AFB, Va.
7. March 1993–July 1996, Chief, Propulsion/Depot Automated Test Systems Branch, Automated Test Systems Division, Kelly AFB, Texas
8. July 1996–January 1999, Chief Mechanical Systems Branch, C-5 System Program Office, Kelly AFB, Texas
9. January 1999–April 1999, Chief Mechanical Systems Branch, C-5 System Program Office, Robins AFB, Ga.
10. April 1999–November 2000, Deputy Chief, C-5 Program Control Division, C-5 Aircraft Directorate, Robins AFB, Ga.
11. November 2000–August 2003, Chief, C-5 Sustainment Division, C-5 Aircraft Directorate, Robins, AFB, Ga.
12. August 2003–January 2004, Chief, Supply Chain Management Division, C-5 Aircraft Directorate, Robins, AFB, Ga.
13. January 2004–April 2007, Chief, C-5 Flight , 574th Combat Sustainment Squadron, Robins AFB, Ga.
14. April 2007–October 2008, Deputy Chief, Logistics Readiness Division, Directorate of Logistics, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va.
15. October 2008–July 2013, Deputy Chief, C2ISR Division, Directorate of Logistics, Headquarters ACC, Langley AFB, Va.
16. July 2013–June 2014, Student, Army War College, Carlisle, Pa.
17. June 2014–August 2017, Chief, Supply Programs, Branch, Weapon System Sustainment Division, Resource Integration Directorate, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
18. August 2017–August 2020, Chief, Resource Integration Division, Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Ill.
19. August 2020–present, Deputy Director of Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection, Headquarters, AMC, Scott AFB, Ill.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Meritorious Civilian Service Award, 2017
Notable Achievement Award, 2007
Performance Awards, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Material Management Federal Women's Most Accomplished Female Supervisor/Manager, 1990
Suggestion Award ($3,182), 1988
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Life Cycle Logistics Level III
Program Management Level III
(Current as of November 2020)