Sandra A. Gregory

Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Gregory is the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer. In this capacity she heads the Office of Financial Management Workforce and leads special studies and directs projects related to financial management to include the Department of Defense’s (DoD) leadership role, along with the CFO Council’s role, in establishing a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Academy for the federal government. She was instrumental in standing up the DoD Audit Oversight Committee, Defense Contract Audit Agency Oversight Committee and worked closely with the Defense Business Board’s Defense Contract Audit Agency Independent Review Panel. She helps identify unique financial challenges and proposes solutions and conducts evaluations of DoD-wide issues to support management decision making, to include the Strategic Human Capital Management Program. She is the Functional Community Manager for Financial Management.

Prior to returning to DoD, Ms. Gregory was Vice President for Financial and Cost Management at CALIBRE in Alexandria, Virginia. At CALIBRE she was responsible for all sales and delivery of activities in the $10 million business unit. In her capacity as a military officer, her last assignment was as the Deputy Director of Budget Operations and Personnel, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, Washington, D.C. She was responsible for planning, formulating and directing the execution of the Air Force operations and maintenance, and military personnel annual budgets totaling more than $60 billion for ensuring Air Force readiness. In her 29 years of military service she served in a variety of financial management positions throughout DoD, to include wing, major command, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and Joint Chiefs of Staff levels. She retired as a brigadier general in November 2006. Ms. Gregory received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Superior where she graduated as a distinguished graduate of Air Force ROTC. She has an MBA and a Master’s of Science in National Resource Strategy. She also completed MIT’s Seminar XXI, Air Command and Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. In May 2008, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin – Superior. She has served on several Boards of Directors, to include the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Armed Forces Benefit Association (AFBA) 5-Star Bank, American Society of Military Comptrollers National Board, the University of Wisconsin – Superior’s Foundation, and the Border Credit Union. She currently serves as a Board member for AFBA’s Investment Management Company. She resides in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband, Tom Bradley. They have two sons.