Chief of Staff
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Captain Kevin “Kepper” Pickard Jr. graduated in 1996 from the United States Naval Academy with a degree in English (with Merit). Following flight training, he was designated a naval aviator in April 1998. In 2006, he was one of seven officers selected into the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Planning Program where he subsequently attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government earning a master’s degree in Political Science from MIT in 2007. In 2021, he completed Joint Professional Military Education II from the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College, Joint and Combined Warfighting School.