Colonel Laurinda Reifsteck returned to the National Defense University in 2025 as the Dean of Students and Air Force Chair at the College of International Security Affairs. Colonel Reifsteck was previously assigned to the College of International Security Affairs, from 2020 to 2023, as an Assistant Professor of International Security Studies, Air Force Chair, and Associate Dean of Administration.
Colonel Reifsteck is a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Prior to returning to National Defense University, she was the Director of Force Development for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, where she was responsible for the career and professional development, talent management, and leadership succession planning of more than 3,700 active duty, reserve, and civilian total force members assigned world-wide.
Colonel Reifsteck entered the U.S. Air Force in February 1999 as a distinguished graduate of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. She attended the Air Force Special Investigations Academy and has served as an investigator, staff officer, three command tours, four deployments, and vice commander of an Air Force center. Her career in criminal investigations and counterintelligence helped culminate 771 investigations, 250 combat operations, and 379 million dollars returned to the U.S. Government.
Of her noteworthy accomplishments, Colonel Reifsteck was the Theater Counterintelligence Collection Authority for North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s