Colonel Jason Eckberg is the Deputy Director, Electromagnetic Warfare/Electromagnetic Spectrum
(EMS) Superiority Directorate at the United States Air Force. This Directorate is responsible to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air Force Futures (AF/A5/7) in coordinating, staffing, and overseeing all Air Force Capability Requirements associated with Electromagnetic Warfare and EMS superiority. Previous to this assignment, Colonel Eckberg was the Commander, Operations Group, at a Data Masked Organization. The 1,000-member Group is responsible for coordinating operational activities at the Nevada Test and Training Range, leading ten flying and test squadrons, managing two active airfields, and coordinating inter-agency use between three executive departments.
Colonel Eckberg received his commission from the Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 730 at Carnegie Mellon University in May 1997. He served as a RC-135 electronic warfare officer, instructor/evaluator electronic warfare officer and combat crew commander. During this time, Colonel Eckberg gained operational experience in the Pacific and European Theaters as well as operational tours in the United States Central Command Area of Operations. In addition to aircrew and operational experience, Colonel Eckberg has served in flight and electronic warfare test and evaluation positions, and as the commander of Big Safari’s 645th Aeronautical Systems Squadron in Greenville, TX, executing flight, engineering, product assurance, contract monitoring, security, and logistics operations for the Big Safari Program Office. Staff experience includes two years at Headquarters Air Force, Operational Requirements Directorate, Electronic Warfare Division, and two years at the Joint Staff in Hampton Roads, Virginia. These assignments included time in the Joint Forces Coordinator Division as the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Joint Working Group Lead for Joint Staff Operations Directorate at Norfolk, Virginia, and in the Joint Concept Division of the J7 at Suffolk, Virginia.
Colonel Eckberg is a Master Navigator with over 2,000 flying hours in over 20 unique aircraft. He is married to the former Mary Ann Bruns of Central City, Nebraska. They have no children, have one senior dog, Samson, and regularly open their home to rescue animals of all types!