Vinnie DiFronzo leads strategy and solutions delivery for SAIC’s Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group. He and his team of 7,000 professionals solve mission-critical customer challenges with proven technology to rapidly transform data into decision advantage. SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® mission integrator driving our nation’s technology transformation with annual revenues of $7.5 billion and approximately 24,000 employees.
SAIC provides engineering, digital, and mission solutions across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets. DiFronzo’s business group delivers a wide range of solutions and services, including C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), training systems, data and artificial intelligence (AI), and systems integration for the Intelligence Community, Space Community, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Department of War agencies and Combatant Commands.
Joining SAIC in 2015, DiFronzo has 15 years of business leadership experience following a successful Air Force career. Prior to holding positions of increasing responsibility at SAIC as Account VP and Operations Manager SVP, he worked for an aviation technology start up and had program management and business development roles with Alion, Scientific Research Corporation, and ARES Corporation.
In the Air Force, DiFronzo commanded at the fighter squadron, fighter group, and wing levels in addition to two Pentagon tours. He was an Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) Air Operations Center (AOC) director the first year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has 3,600 flying hours, including 198 hours of combat time in the F-15C and A-10.
DiFronzo serves on the Board of Directors for Building Homes for Heroes, a non-profit that has gifted 500 mortgage free homes to wounded veterans and Gold Star families.
DiFronzo is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and National War College. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University and has completed executive education in AI, and mergers and acquisitions from MIT, Stanford, and Villanova.