Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey is director of the Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office and director of fires for the deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training, Headquarters, Department of the Army, the Pentagon. Previously, he served as deputy director for force protection, the Joint Staff. He has held air and missile defense assignments throughout the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and Europe. He graduated from Georgia Southern University as an air defense artillery officer. He holds two master’s degrees, one in human resources administration and one in national resource strategy.