Col. Grant Spear is the Mission Integration Team lead under the Architecture and Systems Engineering Space Deputy for Contested Maritime, Department of the Air Force Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (DAF PEO C3BM), Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible for the oversight of technological architecture and integration of the DAF BATTLE NETWORK for contested maritime while providing maritime expertise, architectures, and analysis to the ASE team.
Prior to Col. Spear’s current responsibility, he served as the Military Deputy to the DAF PEO C3BM Chief Architect and Systems Engineer. The division is responsible for design of the DAF BATTLE NETWORK.
The DAF BATTLE NETWORK is the integrated system-of-systems connecting sensor, effector, and logistics systems providing better situational awareness, faster operational decisions, and decisive direction to the force. It integrates roughly 50 programs of record across the department, ensuring resilient decision and information advantage needed by the Air Force, Space Force, Joint, and Coalition forces to win against the pacing challenge. It is the DAF’s contribution to Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control.
Col. Spear has served as the Chief of the Commander’s Action Group for the Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing and Executive Officer to the Commander of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group, Al Dhafra Air Base, Southwest Asia, as well as Deputy Chief, 5th Generation Integration Division, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
He also served in numerous test and acquisition positions including Test Director, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.; Chief Systems Engineer, Enhance Polar System, Los Angeles AFB, California.; Deputy Chief, AMRAAM Production & Sustainment Brand and Chief of Program Integration for the Advanced Programs Division in the Armament Directorate, Eglin AFB, Florida.
Through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Florida State University, Col. Spear commissioned in 2003 and earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also holds a master’s degree in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio.
EDUCATION
2003 Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2008 Masters of Science, Systems Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH
2010 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL
2012 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
2020 Air War College, by correspondence
ASSIGNMENTS
1. June 2003 – August 2006, Test Director, Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center, Kirtland AFB, NM
2. August 2006 – March 2008, Master’s Student, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH
3. April 2008 – July 2011, Chief Systems Engineer, Enhanced Polar System, Los Angeles AFB, CA
4. July 2010 – July 2011, Chief, Commander’s Action Group, MILSATCOM Systems Wing, Los Angeles AFB, CA
5. July 2011 – April 2013, Deputy Chief, AMRAAM Production & Sustainment Branch, Eglin AFB, FL
6. April 2013 – October 2013, Executive Officer, 380th Expeditionary Ops Group, Al Dhafra AB, Southwest Asia
7. October 2013 – July 2015, Chief of Program Integration, Advanced Programs Division, Eglin AFB, FL
8. July 2015 – February 2018, Director of Operations, Warrior Preparation Center, Einsiedlerhof AS, Germany
9. February 2018 – July 2019, Deputy Division Chief, 5th Gen Integration Division, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein AB, Germany
10. July 2019 – July 2022, Materiel Leader, GPS III Contingency Operations Branch, Los Angeles AFB, CA
11. August 2022 – August 2023, Deputy Chief, Airspace Mission Planning Division, Hanscom AFB, MA
12. August 2023 – Present, Military Deputy, Department of the Air Force C3BM Architecture and Systems Engineering, Hanscom AFB, MA
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
2009 MILSATCOM Systems Wing Senior Company Grade Officer of the Year
2015 Warrior Preparation Center Field Grade Officer of the Year
2020 U.S. Air Force Outstanding ACAT II Program Manager of the Year