the role of Project Director of Joint Project 2030 (JP2030), the Australian Defence Force's Joint Command Support Environment (JCSE), in the Command and Support Systems Branch of the Defence Acquisition Organisation (DAO). She completed a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies at the Joint Services Staff College, and became the first woman in the RAAF to become a member of the General List when she was promoted to group captain in 1996. She was seconded for four months to serve on the Science and Technology Team of the Defence Efficiency Review. During 1999, she was the lone Australian student at the Royal College of Defence Studies, completing a 12-month course in strategic and international studies. Returning to Australia in December 1999, she was promoted to air commodore, becoming the first woman to achieve that rank and the first to be promoted to one-star rank in the ADF. When she was subsequently promoted to air vice marshal in 2003, she became the first woman to attain two-star rank in the ADF. She assumed duties as Director General Information Services, responsible for the operations and support of Defence's fixed communications networks and computer systems throughout Australia. In December 2001, she became the first woman Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. That year she was awarded the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society to recognise her contribution to Australian aerospace, and she delivered the Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture. She was appointed by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women to be one of Australia's Honouring Women Ambassadors in 2002. She became the University of Queensland's 12th Alumnus of the Year in 2003, and a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004. Later career Retiring from the RAAF in 2005, Hammer became the National Vice President of Engineers Australia, and its president in 2008. She is a director of the .au Domain Regulator, auDA. In 2008 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia in 2011. Hammer has been married to fellow RAAF officer, Air Vice Marshal David Dunlop, since September 2000. References 1955 births Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Living people Members of the Order of Australia People from Brisbane Recipients of the Conspicuous Service Cross (Australia) Female air marshals of the