Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)
Seal of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) United States Air Force
Incumbent Jamie M. Morin since June 19, 2009
Style	The Honorable
Nominator	President of the United States
Formation	1947
Website	www.saffm.hq.af.mil

Flag used by Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force

The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) (abbreviated SAF/FM) is a civilian official in the United States Department of the Air Force.

Responsibilities

According to U.S. law, there are four Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force appointed from civilian life by the President of the United States upon the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They assist the United States Secretary of the Air Force and the United States Under Secretary of the Air Force. One of the four assistant secretaries is the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller), who is responsible for "the exercise of the comptroller functions of the Department of the Air Force, including financial management functions." The duties expressly given to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) include determining the Department of the Air Force's budget estimates (in conjunction with the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)), supervising the Department's financial management system, and overseeing the department's asset management system. The Assistant Secretary is also responsible for developing a five year plan for improving the department's financial management, which plan must be updated annually. He or she also must submit an annual report to the Secretary of the Air Force detailing the state of the department's financial management.

Subordinates

The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller)'s principal deputies are a civilian Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller) and a military officer serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget; the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cost and Economics; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Operations.

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) (Incomplete List)

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President Appointed By	Secretary Served Under
Leonard Mark, Jr.	June 1964	December 1967	Lyndon Johnson	Eugene M. Zuckert, Harold Brown
Thomas H. Nielsen	January 1968	June 1969	Lyndon Johnson	Harold Brown
Spencer J. Schedler	June 1969	April 1973	Richard Nixon	Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
William W. Woodruff	April 1973	July 1975	Richard Nixon	Robert C. Seamans, Jr., John L. McLucas
Francis Hughes	March 1976	September 1976	Gerald Ford	Thomas C. Reed
Everett T. Keech	September 1976	August 1977	Gerald Ford	Thomas Reed, John C. Stetson
John A. Hewitt, Jr.	February 1978		Jimmy Carter	John C. Stetson, Hans Mark
Russell D. Hale	March 1981	February 1984	Ronald Reagan	Verne Orr
Richard E. Carver	1984	1988	Ronald Reagan	Verne Orr, Russell A. Rourke, Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.
Michael B. Donley	1989	1994	George H. W. Bush	Donald Rice
Robert F. Hale	1994	2001	Bill Clinton	Sheila Widnall, F. Whitten Peters
Michael Montelongo	2001	2005	George W. Bush	James G. Roche
John H. Gibson	January 15, 2008	January 20, 2009	George W. Bush	Michael Wynne, Michael B. Donley
Jamie M. Morin	June 19, 2009	Present	Barack Obama	Michael B. Donley