Lieutenant Colonel
Jacob Stevens
Lt Col Stevens is the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) Branch Chief and lead ITW/AA Exercise Director, Assessor/Authority Training Division, Training and Exercises Directorate, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command (NORAD and USNORTHCOM) at Peterson AFB, Colorado. He is responsible for developing and leading exercises that train NORAD and USNORTHCOM General Officers how to assess and characterize missile, space, and air events worldwide for the President, Prime Minister, Secretary of Defense, Minister of National Defense, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other national and civil agencies. When on shift in the NORAD-USNORTHCOM Current Operations Center as a Missile and Space Domain Chief, Lt Col Stevens leads a domain that characterizes missile events in support of Commander, NORAD and USNORTHCOM missile attack assessments. Additionally, he monitors the system integrity of the $1.8B strategic and theater missile warning systems, assuring continuous warning coverage and notification to national and military senior leaders. Lt Col Stevens was commissioned into the Air Force in 2002 through the AFROTC program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has held various assignments as an A-10 Thunderbolt II and A-29 Super Tucano pilot including Chief of Scheduling, Flight Commander, Instructor, Evaluator, and Assistant Director of Operations. This includes three deployments to Afghanistan in support of combat operations. He had a career broadening assignment with the Air Force Personnel Exchange Program, in which he had the opportunity to attend the German Basic Course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. After that, Lt Col Stevens served as an Exchange Staff Officer with the German Air Force’s Operational Forces Command in Cologne, Germany. Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Director of Operations in the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody AFB, Georgia, where he served as an A-29 Instructor/Evaluator pilot and Air Advisor for the Afghan and Lebanese Air Forces.
