Deputy Commander Crane Army Ammunition Activity

Anthony Fabrizio

Deputy Commander Crane Army Ammunition Activity

Anthony Fabrizio

APPOINTED

June 4, 2023

MOST RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Served as Chief, Strategic Transformation Division within the Plans and Programs Directorate, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

EDUCATION

Earned bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and his Master of Business Administration from Liberty University.

Anthony Fabrizio serves as the Deputy Commander for Crane Army Ammunition Activity, a government-owned, government operated munitions activity in Crane, Indiana.

In this role he advises the commander on the receiving, storage, shipping, production, renovation and demilitarization of approximately one-quarter of the U.S. military's conventional ammunition, missiles and related components worth $9.8 billion in support of United States Army and Joint Force readiness. As the senior civilian within CAAA, he has oversight of a federal workforce of more than 700 employees, a $230M operating budget and a $375M multi-year capital modernization budget.

Prior to assuming the role of Deputy Commander, Fabrizio served as Chief, Strategic Transformation Division within the Plans and Programs Directorate, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. In this capacity, he developed and oversaw six major nuclear weapons programs for the Program Executive Officer of Strategic Systems, underpinning 34 acquisition programs and a $9B portfolio responsible for the lifecycle management of nuclear weapons systems supporting two legs of the nation’s nuclear triad, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, air-launched cruise missiles, gravity bombs, nuclear certification, and nuclear command-and-control communications systems.

Fabrizio’s career experience includes significant roles in a broad range of functional areas such as finance, strategic planning, logistics, business development and military operations, having held various senior level positions at the Department of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command Headquarters, Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia. In this role he was the Major Command’s lead Strategic Planner and Centralized Asset Manager responsible for a $2.6B Global Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft portfolio. Fabrizio has also worked in private industry as a project manager for logistics and military packaging, as a senior business consultant at an Eastern European Regional Business Incubator in Moldova and at Raytheon as a production controller. Fabrizio started his career enlisting in the United States Marine Corps and served various assignments at Camp Pendleton, California and Iwakuni, Japan, as well as multiple deployments in CENTCOM and INDOPACOM before ending his active duty with an honorable discharge.

Fabrizio received his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and his Master of Business Administration from Liberty University. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, where he specialized in Geopolitics and National Security Studies. He is also a graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Nuclear Weapons Effects, Policy, and Proliferation graduate program and the Defense Nuclear College’s Nuclear Certification Process Course.