Jordan Hibbs

Jordan Hibbs is a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters (ODASD(NM)). Prior to this assignment, Jordan served as the Strategic Systems and Hypersonic Weapons Action Officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN RD&A) where she was responsible for advising ASN RD&A and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Ship Programs (DASN Ships) on matters pertaining to the Navy’s nuclear weapons delivery systems, nuclear security, and hypersonic weapons, including the Navy’s TRIDENT II D5 Strategic Weapons System, the TRIDENT II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) Program, and the Conventional Prompt Strike program.

Jordan previously served as the Field Operations Manager for the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), Technical Division’s Launcher Branch where she oversaw the activities of the launcher subsystem operations at the Strategic Weapons Facilities and other SSP field sites in the United States and the activities in the United Kingdom (UK), and served as the Deputy UK Program Lead for the TRIDENT II D5 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Launcher Subsystem. Prior to joining the Department of Defense, Jordan served as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of International Affairs (IA) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Her experience spans technical program management, program planning and budgeting, and international program management.

Jordan is currently a member of the National Defense University’s (NDU) Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Program for Emerging Leaders (PEL), a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Pacific Forum, and a 2021 Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA) Fellow through Harvard University. Jordan is a former Mosaic Taiwan Fellow and former Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Nuclear Scholar. Jordan also serves on the Board of Directors for the Women in International Security (WIIS) DC Chapter. In 2020, Jordan was a candidate for the District of Columbia Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for the 6E04 district (non-partisan position).

Jordan holds a Master’s in Science and Technology Policy and a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University. She also holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from American University’s Key Executive Leadership Program. In 2020, Jordan received the Excellence in Service Honorary Award (2020) from the Office of Personnel Management’s Presidential Management Fellows Program.