Former U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief Information Officer Jennifer Aquinas-Orozco has joined Boeing as an Enterprise Classified Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance Senior Manager, marking a move to the private sector after over three decades in federal service.
Aquinas-Orozco brings extensive experience in national security, classified systems protection, and enterprise risk management. Most recently, she served as Deputy CIO for the Department of the Air Force, overseeing information technology strategy across the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. In that role, she supported a global cyber workforce of roughly 20,000 personnel and helped manage an IT portfolio valued at approximately $17 billion, spanning networks, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data management, and emerging technologies.
Earlier, Aquinas-Orozco held senior leadership roles focused on security and special program oversight, including Director of Security, Special Program Oversight and Information Protection for the Department of the Air Force. She was responsible for policy direction and oversight of Special Access Programs and served as functional manager for a civilian security workforce of more than 2,000 personnel. Her work included safeguarding highly sensitive technologies and advancing insider threat mitigation and personnel vetting reforms.
Her federal career began with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and included a key role in standing up the Air Force’s Counter Insider Threat program.
Aquinas-Orozco also served as an Air Force officer on active and reserve duty for 20 years in security forces assignments. She holds multiple advanced degrees in business and organizational security management, military operational art and science, and national security and resource strategy.
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