Craig B. Hymes |EVP & SVP of Operations – National Defense Transportaion Association

Craig, originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, began his career in the U.S. Army Reserves as an Ordnance Officer in 1981. After graduating from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1984, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. Craig retired as a Colonel after over 28 years of service, with his final assignment as Commander of the 597th Transportation Group under USTRANSCOM’s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. Throughout his military career, Craig held numerous command and key positions in various locations, including the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, the 27th Transportation Battalion in Germany, the Southern European Task Force in Italy, and the 10^th Transportation Battalion at Fort Eustis, Virginia, among others. After retiring from the Army, he worked as the Director of Transportation and Business Development for Supreme Defense and Government Services USA from 2009 to 2015, and as a Senior Consultant with LMI from 2015 to 2019. In May 2019, Craig became the Senior Vice President of Operations for the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA) and became the NDTA Board Executive Vice President in 2022. He lives and works in Northern Virginia.