Chad Chaffee is a former U.S. Air Force special operations pilot and defense industry business development professional with more than 25 years of experience across military operations, flight training, and defense services capture. He advises companies on winning contracts, shaping projects, and understanding customer requirements in the ISR and training markets.

A 1996 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Mr. Chaffee served 15 years as a U.S. Air Force officer. He flew as a U-28 mission aircraft commander, completing three combat deployments, and served as Assistant Director of Operations at Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). He later returned to AFSOC as Chief of Airborne Mission Networking, where he worked on user requirements for airborne mission systems. He also served as a pilot instructor in the Air Force Reserve’s Formal Training Unit at Hurlburt Field, and as a flight instructor at Lockheed Martin.

In the private sector, Mr. Chaffee was a Business Development Manager at L3Harris Technologies. In 2023 he founded ISR & Training Solutions, where he provides consulting on defense services contract capture, project development, and customer requirements.

Mr. Chaffee holds a bachelor of science in management from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master of arts in military joint operations planning and strategy from the USAF Air Command and Staff College.