Col Craig Punches

Dean, School of Systems and Logistics

Colonel Craig A. Punches is the Dean of the School of Systems and Logistics, one of four schools that make up the Air Force Institute of Technology, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is responsible for developing and providing defense-focused professional continuing education, research and consulting services in order to sustain America's air and space forces technological supremacy. To this end, the school provides more than 120 resident, on-site, and both synchronous and asynchronous distance learning professional continuing education courses in acquisition management, logistics, contracting, systems management, software engineering and financial management. Approximately 18 thousand DoD personnel in 50 worldwide locations attend Systems and Logistics courses each year.

He has commanded one group (Personal Property Activity Headquarters) and three squadrons (455th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, 422nd Supply Chain Management Squadron, and 628th Logistics Readiness Squadron).