Major General Paul Fast

Paul R. Fast is the Mobilization Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration and Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon,Arlington, Virginia. Major General Fast supports the Deputy Chief of Staff with developing the Air Force strategy and multi-domain operating concepts, integrating through centralized design, and validating and prioritizing operational capabilities-based requirements to achieve national defense objectives and deliver timely and effective capability to the warfighter.

Maj. Gen. Fast received his commission in 1991 through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Miami University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business Administration. He served on active duty from September 1992 to September 2001. During that period, he accumulated more than 1,000 hours in the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System at North American Treaty Organization AirBase Geilenkirchen, Germany, and Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. In October 2001, Major General Fast joined the Air Force Reserve as a traditional reservist. He has supported exercises and operations in the Indo-Pacific theater for 22 years and maintains qualification as a Joint Air Component Coordination Element Director in the Indo-Pacific theater today.

Prior to his current Assignment, Maj. Gen. Fast served as the Mobilization Assistant to to the Deputy Commander of Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam,Hawaii. In his civilian career, Maj. Gen. Fast is a senior project manager in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.