Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force

Roles and responsibilities

• Serves as chief science and technology adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
• Provides assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical issues affecting the Air Force mission
• Identifies and analyzes technical issues and brings them to the attention of Air Force leaders, and interacts with other Air Staff principals, operational commanders, combatant commands, acquisition, and science and technology communities to address cross-organizational technical issues and solutions
• Interacts with other services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense on issues affecting the Air Force in-house technical enterprise
• Serves on the Steering Committee and Senior Review Group of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
• Principal science and technology representative of the Air Force to the civilian scientific and engineering community and to the public at large

  Products of the Office of the Chief Scientist

• , summarized in the

• Chronological list of Chief Scientists of the Air Force