Colonel Michael Lewis is Deputy Director, Infrastructure Delivery, and US Air Force Senior Information Assurance Official, Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer (CIO), Pentagon, Washington D.C. As the Air Force CIO’s single manager for enterprise information domain infrastructure, his office develops policy, resource strategies and integrated architectures/capabilities to enable Air Force forces to generate, project and sustain a single integrated information domain in air, space and cyberspace.  He also partners with DoD, federal, industrial base and international partners to fuse joint and allied policy, requirements, architectures and capabilities.

Colonel Lewis enlisted in the Air Force in 1976 as a Morse systems operator.  Staff Sergeant Lewis accepted an AFROTC scholarship and began college in 1982.  He was commissioned in 1984 after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Nebraska, Omaha.  Colonel Lewis has commanded at flight, squadron and group levels, as a vice wing commander, and served on the Joint Staff Directorate for C4 Systems.  Before taking his current position, Colonel Lewis was the Director of Communications, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces.  Additionally, he stood up the 86th Air & Space Communications Group in 2003.  He has been an operational crew member aboard Strategic Air Command’s airborne command post and a deputy crew commander in U.S. Space Command’s Space Control Center.  He has also served as Air Expeditionary Support Group Commander during Air Mobility Command’s EAGLE FLAG 04-5.  Colonel Lewis deployed for a year as Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4) Systems, for United States Central Command Air Forces (USCENTAF) Forward and the Combined Air Operations Center. He is a distinguished graduate of all enlisted/officer professional military education attended, earning the Commandant’s Trophy/Award at both Squadron Officer School and Air Command and Staff College.  He is a 1996 graduate of the Air Force’s School of Advanced Airpower Studies, and 2002 graduate of the College of Naval Warfare.