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Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Infrastructure Modernization & Resilience
Mr. Sinder is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Infrastructure Modernization and Resilience. In this role, he is charged with ensuring strategic alignment of DoD’s physical infrastructure with warfighter requirements, to include development and execution of policies, guidance, and procedures for basing, real property management, geospatial information and services, and the construction, operations, maintenance and repair of DoD’s worldwide infrastructure portfolio.
Prior to this assignment Mr. Sinder served as the Director, Installations Division (OPNAV N4I) under the Deputy, Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics.
From 2020-2023, Mr. Sinder served as the Director of Operations (N3) for Commander, Navy Installations Command.
Prior to this appointment, from 2019-2020, Mr. Sinder served as the Executive Director for Naval District Washington (NDW).
Mr. Sinder began working in the Department of Defense environment in 2003 in variety of positions principally on Chief of Naval Operations staff and for Commander, Navy Installations Command.
Mr. Sinder is a native of Champaign, Il and graduated from the College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science.