The chapter's Young AFCEANs concluded their 2018 Power Breakfast with an event featuring Mobility Aircraft Program Executive Officer Linda Rutledge, a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). The December breakfast allowed members to mix, network and learn from senior leadership around the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio region. Rutledge is responsible for program execution, executive management and supervision responsibilities of all ACAT I, II and III programs in the mobility aircraft portfolio to include the C-5, C-17, C27J, C-130J, C-130 legacy, mature and proven aircraft and training aircraft. She oversees over 1,700 military, civilian and contractor personnel charged with executing a total mobility portfolio in excess of $30 billion. In her previous assignment, she was the program executive officer for Agile Combat Support Programs, where she led one of the Air Force Materiel Command's most diverse materiel systems directorates with more than 1,600 military, civilian and contractor personnel charged with executing an annual budget of approximately $9 billion. Rutledge began her career with the Air Force in 1989 and has served in multiple acquisition, staff and career broadening assignments.
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