MG Christopher J. Sharpsten is the Deputy Director for Supply, Production and Distribution for Operation Warp Speed. The Operation Warp Speed mission is to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021,
as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.
MG Sharpsten’s previous command tours include the 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, 82nd Sustainment Brigade, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta Support Squadron, and the 540th Quartermaster Company. His multiple staff assignments
include Director of Logistics and Engineering for U.S. Central Command, Director of Sustainment for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, Director for Logistics Strategy and Integration on the Army Staff, Executive Officer
to the Commanding General of U.S. Transportation Command, XVIII Airborne Corps Chief of Sustainment, Executive Officer to the Commander of Joint Special Operations Command, as well as multiple assignments in the 1st Special Forces Operational
Detachment-Delta including Deputy Operations Officer, Squadron Executive Officer, and Squadron Support Operations Officer.
MG Sharpsten deployed on multiple combat and contingency security operations in support of U.S. national interests, including deployments to Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Thailand, as well as missions to other countries in the Persian
Gulf, Levant and North Africa. He also participated in Humanitarian relief operations supporting refugee relief in southern Iraq in 1991, Hurricane Iniki response in Hawaii in 1992, and Hurricane Sandy response in New Jersey and New York
in 2012. MG Sharpsten completed his undergraduate studies at the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. MG Sharpsten earned his Master of Business Administration from Michigan State University and
a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College.
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