JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas –
Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph and JBSA-Lackland will host Anthony Reardon, the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, and Gwendolyn DeFilippi, the Principal Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, Aug. 21 and 22.
The purpose of the visit is to communicate and interact with the civilian workforce regarding career and developmental opportunities, paths to senior civilian positions and answer questions in a non-attribution environment.
Reardon, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Air Force's senior career civilian adviser to the Secretary of the Air Force. He performs high-level assignments following the Secretary's policies, goals, and objectives. He oversees the execution and programming of the Headquarters U.S. Air Force portfolio with an annual budget of $5.6 billion and 37,000 personnel.
He administratively manages and supports the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, its 1,650-member Secretariat and 2,400-member supported field operating agencies to include manpower, personnel, organization, budget, supply, and the Secretary's contingency fund; information, personnel and industrial security oversight for U.S. treaty issues; Special Access Programs and anti-terrorism.
Reardon is also the Air Force lead for Insider Threat policy and implementation. He establishes policy and oversees worldwide Air Force Departmental Publishing, the Air Force Declassification Office, the Air Force Art Program and the Air Force Executive Dining Facility.
Reardon served on active duty in the Air Force from 1982 through 2003. In his capacity as a Weapon System Officer flying the RF-4C, and later as a staff officer, he’s held numerous key operational and staff positions at the squadron, wing, major command, Army division and Air Staff levels.
DeFilippi serves as the principal assistant to the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower. She is responsible for comprehensive plans and policies covering all life cycles of military and civilian personnel management, including military end strength and civilian work-year execution, education and training, compensation and resource allocation and the delivery of fully qualified, ready Airmen for the joint warfighter, while also meeting the needs of Airmen and their families.
Appointed to the SES in 2010, DeFilippi graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1996 and has served in numerous leadership positions.
Reardon and DeFilippi will host career and developmental opportunity panel discussions for all GS and NAF civilians at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 21 at the Fleenor Auditorium at JBSA-Randolph and at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 22 at the Bob Hope Auditorium located at JBSA-Lackland.
Directly after each panel discussion, a “sensing,” or listening session, for SES civilians, GS-14s and GS-15s from throughout JBSA will be held. The sensing session runs from 10:15-11 a.m. Aug. 21 at the Fleenor Auditorium at JBSA-Randolph and from 10:15-11 a.m. at the Bob Hope Auditorium at JBSA-Lackland.