Mona Stone

A retired U.S. Air Force colonel with over 26 years of military leadership experience and demonstrated excellence in strategic planning, leading large organizations, and team building, Ms. Mona Stone’s operational expertise includes Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance operations; intelligence analysis; and flying operations. Key operational assignments included Vice Commander, 480th ISR Wing and Deputy Operations Group Commander, 55 Wing. Key staff assignments included Deputy Director of Intelligence, National Joint Operations Intelligence Center (J22) and Deputy Director for Warfighter Support and Integration (J26). As J26, she served as the Military Targeting Intelligence Community chair. Her last active duty assignment was as the Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, where she was responsible for developing ISR policy and guidance for the command; overseeing ISR requirements development; and organizing, training, and equipping the command’s intelligence Airmen. Ms. Stone has served in positions at the Pentagon on Joint Staff and Air Staff, at Major Command, Numbered Air Force and at Wing-level, and has held leadership positions at the Squadron-, Group-, Wing-,  MAJCOM-, and Joint Staff-level in CONUS and deployed assignments. 

Ms. Stone is the Technical Advisor of the Air Combat Command Directorate of Intelligence’s Intel Data and Technology Futures Division (ACC/A29) at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Ms. Stone oversees command intelligence data management/governance, data analytics, innovation, and technology scouting. The division is charged with developing innovative ways to exploit data utilizing advanced analytics & cutting edge technology in order to establish and maintain the access, timeliness, relevance and veracity key to decision superiority. Ms. Stone and the three data-focused branches work diverse lines of effort to yield rapid advances in technology, pursuing innovations that enable the ISR Enterprise to accommodate the explosion in the volume, velocity, and variety of data. She previously served as the AF Data-to-Decision Experimentation campaign lead, a $20M R&D project executed under the guidance and oversight of the AF Capabilities Development Council. Experimentation focused on integrating data capabilities and Air Superiority effects chains. 

Ms. Stone also possesses a functional proficiency in Spanish.