South Valley Chamber Women In Business Luncheon with Colonel Angela Micheal

Colonel Angela Micheal

Angela has over 26 years of combined program management and logistics experience as a military officer, contractor and federal civilian with various USAF weapon systems including the cargo aircraft, fighter aircraft, missiles, radars; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs (C4ISR), and now nuclear weapons. She was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Auburn University, AL, in 1994. She subsequently served as an active duty Air Force officer for four years and has been in the Air Force Reserve since 1998. She worked in the private sector for nine years before becoming an Air Force federal civilian in 2007.

As a federal civilian, her pay grade is an NH-04. She is the Deputy Director for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Systems Directorate at Hill AFB, UT. Angela advises the Director in managing all aspects of the directorates 600+ member organization responsible for developing and procuring the next Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to modernize the land-based portion of the nuclear triad. The GBSD program is an $83 billion dollar megaproject replacing the Minute Man III and all of its infrastructure.

She has continued her military career as an Air Force reservist through present time and her current rank is Colonel. She is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant to the Director for Information Dominance Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Pentagon, Washington D.C. In this position, she supports the Director responsible for all acquisition and modernization activities for seventy-seven Air Force C4ISR programs valued at over $45 billion dollars.

She has been married for 25+ years to Jeff and they have two daughters: Rachel (age 19) and Anna (age 17).

EDUCATION

1994 B.S., Operations Management, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

1996 M.S., Logistics Systems, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia

2003 Squadron Officer School, United States Air Force

2010 Air Command and Staff College, United States Air Force

2013 Air War College, United States Air Force

2015 Program Managers Course, Defense Systems Management College (DSMC), Fort Belvoir, VA

2017 Executive Program Managers Course, DSMC, Fort Belvoir, VA

2018 Senior Materiel Leader Course, Maxwell AFB, AL

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Program Management, Level III, Defense Acquisition University

Life Cycle Logistics, Level III, Defense Acquisition University