Colonel Chris M. Landwehr is the Dean, School of Strategic Force Studies, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He leads 42 faculty and staff members across three geographically separate operating locations, committed to developing Airmen, joint service professionals and international partners to thrive in a technologically competitive environment. The School of Strategic Force Studies graduates approximately 5,000 mid-to-senior level students annually from competency-based professional continuing education or scholarship programs focused on critical subject matter such as nuclear surety; deterrence strategy; nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) methodology; and cyberspace operations. The School of Strategic Force Studies’ operating and maintenance budget is approximately $3.4 million per year, which supports academic partnerships and distance learning, the Department of Nuclear Studies located at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, the Department of Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) Studies at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and the Department of Cyberspace Studies located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Colonel Landwehr received his commission from Wright State University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program, Dayton, Ohio, in 2001. He has served in a variety of positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels, the deployed arena and in the joint environment to include four base-level communications squadrons, a fighter wing staff, the Defense Information Systems Agency and a warfighting Combatant Command. He has also served on the United States Air Forces Central Air Force Forces Forward staff, Air Combat Command staff, Special Operations Command – Africa forward deployed staff and as United States Central Command’s Liaison Officer to Headquarters United States Forces – Afghanistan and NATO’s Resolute Support mission. Prior to this assignment he served as Branch Chief, Enterprise Information Technology Connect Portfolio, Secretary of the Air Force Chief Information Officer, Pentagon, Virginia. In this capacity he led the largest Enterprise Information Technology portfolio, providing policy, strategy, and guidance while managing a diverse set of network connectivity capabilities supporting 845,000 users across a $3B network enterprise.