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This article was Originally Published on Feb 02, 2003 in Volume: 2 Issue: 1

Who's Who in Space Command

Command:

General Lance W. Lord
Commander, AFSPC
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Lieutenant General Robert C. Hinson
Vice Commander, AFSPC
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Colonel Jeffrey H. Wenzel
Director of Staff, AFSPC
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Chief Master Sergeant Ronald G. Kriete
Command Chief Master Sergeant
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Major General John A. Love
Air National Guard
Assistant to the Commander
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Brigadier General Thomas D. Taverney
Mobilization Assistant to the Commander
Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Background

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, CO. AFSPC was created on September 1, 1982 when missile warning and space operations were combined. Today, approximately 22,600 active-duty military and civilians, alongside 11,000 contractor employees, work to perform the AFSPC missions.

Mission

AFSPC has four primary mission areas:

Space forces support involves launching satellites and other high-value payloads into space using a variety of expendable launch vehicles and operating those satellites once in the medium of space.
Space control ensures friendly use of space through the conduct of counterspace operations encompassing surveillance, negation, and protection.
Force enhancement provides weather, communications, intelligence, missile warning, and navigation. Force enhancement is support to the warfighter.
Force application involves maintaining and operating a rapid response, land-based ICBM force as the Air Force’s only on-alert strategic deterrent.

Organization

AFSPC has two numbered air forces: Fourteenth Air Force, located at Vandenberg AFB, CA and Twentieth Air Force, located at F.E. Warren AFB, WY. Other AFSPC bases, stations and units include: Cheyenne Mountain, Schriever, Peterson and Buckley, CO; Los Angeles, Onizuka and Vandenberg, CA; Cape Canaveral and Patrick, FL.; Minot and Cavalier, ND; F.E. Warren, WY; Malmstrom, MT; Clear, AK; New Boston, NH; and Thule, Greenland.

Resources

AFSPC operates and supports the Global Positioning System (GPS), Defense Satellite Communications Systems (DSCS) Phase II and III, Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP), Defense Support Program, NATO III and IV communications and Fleet Satellite Communications System UHF follow-on, and MILSTAR satellites. The command also operates the Air Force Satellite Control Network—a global network of satellite tracking stations to provide communications links to satellites.

Currently, AFSPC controls the Atlas II, Delta II, Titan II, and Titan IV launch vehicles. This includes all of the nation’s primary boosters from the eastern and western ranges and range support for space shuttle. Also under AFSPC’s watch are the ground-based radars used primarily for ballistic missile warning include the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, PAVE PAWS and PARCS radars. The Maui Optical Tracking Identification Facility, Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS), Passive Space Surveillance System, phased-array and mechanical radars provide primary space surveillance coverage.

The U.S. ICBM force consists of Minuteman III and Peacekeeper missiles that provide the critical component of America’s on-alert strategic forces. As the nation’s “silent sentinels,” ICBMs, and the people who operate them, have remained on continuous, around-the-clock alert since 1959—longer than any other U.S. strategic force.

AFSPC Program Directors and Program Element Monitors

Advanced EHF MILSATCOM (Space) (0603430f)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Maj. Allison Weir 703-693-3360

Advanced MILSATCOM (4050) (0603430F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Maj. Allison Weir 703-693-3360

Air-Based Boost (4030) (0604741A)
Manager: Col. Ellen Pawhkowski 505-846-2102

Boost Defense Segment (0603883C)
Manager: Col. Ellen Pawhkowski 505-846-2102

Command & Control System Consolidated (CCSC) (4870) (0603854F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Maj. Allison Weir 703-693-3360

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (4758) (0305160F)
Director: Col. Randy Odle 310-336-4333
PEM: Maj. Steve Kravchin 703-693-3358

Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) (2638) (0303110F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Maj. Allison Weir 703-693-3360

Defense Support Program (DSP) (3624) (0305911F)
Director: Col. Dudley B. Killam 310-363-3465

Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle—EMD (0004) (0604853F)
Manager: Col. Robert K. Saxer 310-336-4614

Global Positioning (Space)
Director: Col. Douglas L. Loverro 310-363-1526

GPS Block III (4993) (0603421F)
Manager: Col. Phyllis Loving 310-363-0548

Medium Launch Vehicle (Space)
Director: Col. Michael J. Dunn 310-363-3915

MILSATCOM Terminals (2487)(0303601F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877

MILSTAR Low Data Rate/Medium Data Rate (LDR/MDR) SatCom (0604479F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Lt. Col. Ray Zaun 703-588-7324

MILSTAR Satellite Communications System (5010) (0604479F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877
PEM: Lt. Col. Ray Zaun 703-588-7324

National Polar-Orbiting operational Environmental Satellite System (0603434F)
Manager: Col. Randy T. Odle 310-336-4333

NAVSTAR Global Positioning System III (0603421F)
Manager: Col. Phyllis Loving 310-363-0548

NAVSTAR GPS (Space & Control) (3030)(0305165F)
Manager: Jerry Heydinger 310-363-0727

NAVSTAR GPS (User Equipment) (3028)(0305164F)
Manager: Col. Radesh Dewan 310-363-2922

Nuclear Detonation Detection System (2808)(0305913F)
Director: Dudley B. Killam 310-363-3465
Polar MILSATCOM (Space) (0603432F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877

Satellite Control Network
Director: Col. Michael Mantz 310-363-1145

SBIRS Low Element—EMD (4598) (0604442F)
Manager: Col. Randall S. Weidenheimer 310-363-1985

SBIRS High Element—EMD (3616) (0604441F)
Manager: Col (S). Thomas Clay 310-363-5751

Shield/Alert (3615) (0305911F)
Director: Dudley B. Killam 310-363-3465

Wideband Gapfiller (4811) (0603854F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877

Wideband MILSATCOM (Space) (0603854F)
Director: Christine M. Anderson 310-336-4877

Direct Reporting Units:

Lieutenant General Brian A. Arnold
Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, AFSPC, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA

Brigadier General Douglas M. Fraser
Commander, Space Warfare Center, AFSPC, Schriever Air Force Base, CO

Major General Michael A. Hamel
Commander, 14th Air Force, AFSPC, and Component Commander, Space Air Forces, U.S. Strategic Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA

Major General Timothy J. McMahon
Commander, 20th Air Force, AFSPC, and Commander, Task Force 214, U.S. Strategic Command, F. E. Warren Air Force Base, WY

AFSPC Wings:

Brigadier General Duane W. Deal
Commander, 21st Space Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, CO

Brigadier General (Select) Robert M. Worley II
Commander, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA

Brigadier General J. Gregory Pavlovich
Commander, 45th Space Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, FL

Brigadier General (Select) Larry D. James
Commander, 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, CO

Colonel James A. Sands
Commander, 460th Air Base Wing, Buckley Air Force Base, CO

Colonel Thomas Shearer
Commander, 90th Space Wing, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, WY

Colonel Mark H. Owen
Commander, 91st Space Wing, Minot Air Force Base, ND

Colonel C. Donald Alston
Commander, 341st Space Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base, MT

HQ AFSPC Directorates:

Dr. Gene H. McCall, CN
Chief Scientist

Colonel Cornelius (Connie) J. Carmody, CE
Director, Civil Engineering

Colonel Connie S. Lintz, CG
Air National Guard Advisor

Colonel James D. Rendleman, CR
Director, Reserve Forces

Brigadier General William L. Shelton, DO
Director, Operations

Colonel Steve Robinson, DP
Director, Personnel

Brigadier General John (Tom) T. Sheridan, DR
Director, Requirements

Colonel Oswaldo Y. Mullins, FM
Director, Financial Management

Colonel Bradford E. Ward, IG
Inspector General

Colonel Lauri K. Cross, IN
Director, Intelligence

Colonel Kai Lee Norwood, LG
Director, Logistics

Colonel David K. Cannon, PA
Director, Public Affairs

Brigadier General Richard E. Webber, SC
Director, Communications & Information

Colonel Michael W. Hazen, SF
Director, Security Forces

Colonel David Estill, SV
Director, Services

Colonel Stephen L. Meigs, SG
Command Surgeon General

Brigadier General Roosevelt Mercer, XP
Director, Plans and Programs

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