Jessica Jones
Executive Director – Office of Advanced Aviation Technologies (AAT)
FAA
Jessica Jones assumed the role of the Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Administrator in January 2025. In this role, she is a key advisor to the FAA Chief of Staff, assisting with the management of political and operational matters.
Jessica joined the FAA in 2011. Before taking on the acting Deputy Chief of Staff role, Jessica served as Acting Chief of Staff for the Office of Security and Hazardous Materials Safety (ASH) where she advanced the ASH mission through leading the FAA’s planning, coordination and implementation of national security policies and programs involving aviation safety, internal security, investigations, intelligence, emergency planning and operations, UAS and emergency entrants, and hazardous materials safety. She also previously served as senior advisor for the Office of the Deputy Administrator.
Prior to that role, Ms. Jones was the Command-and-Control Communications (C3) Manager. C3 provides the FAA with survivable, secure, and redundant communications that ensure the agency’s ability to respond to emergencies, assist in restoring the National Airspace System, and maintain the continuity of FAA operations. In that role, she led the NAS Recovery Communications Program, which plans for, purchases, tests, fields, and maintains FAA Continuity of Operations (COOP) facilities, contingency communications equipment, classified messaging equipment, and a semi-autonomous information technology infrastructure. She was also responsible for the FAA’s Aviation Insurance Program, which provides products that address the insurance needs of the U.S. domestic air transportation industry when none are available from the commercial insurance market.
Jessica’s background also includes serving additional FAA roles, including Business Manager for the Office of National Security Programs and Incident Response, and serving as a program and management analyst with a primary focus on budget for the ASH organization.
Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree from Catholic University of America, and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute.
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