Maj Gen James B. Armor, Jr. (Ret.)

Major General, USAF (Retired) James B. Armor, Jr., is Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for ATK Spacecraft Systems & Services, Beltsville, MD.  There he is responsible for producing and executing the market strategy for the small satellite, satellite thermal systems, and engineering services businesses for government and commercial space customers. Major General Armor retired from the U.S. Air Force in January 2008, where his last position was as director of the National Security Space Office (NSSO) in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. There he was responsible for coordinating all defense and intelligence space activities, and testified on acquisition and operational issues to Congressional Committees and the UN. Prior to the NSSO, he was Director, Signals Intelligence Systems Acquisition and Operations at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Vice Commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB, GA, and Program Director of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA. He earlier served as a combat crew missile launch officer, a laser signal intelligence analyst and a satellite launch system integrator. He was selected and fully trained as a DoD Space Shuttle payload specialist, and was first to study information warfare while a research fellow at the National War College. He is an associate fellow of AIAA, and President & founder of The Armor Group, LLC, a space consultancy.  He is currently on the Board of Directors of NAVSYS Corp, a small navigation and guidance research & development company in Colorado Springs, CO; and on the Board of Advisors of Ubiquitech Ventures, a space and cyber capital fund; and of the Secure World Foundation, a not for profit advocacy and think tank for sustainable space. He has been a member of several National Research Council Studies including the NASA Technology Roadmap Review; Rationale & Goals for US Civil Space Program; and AF Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Math (STEM) Workforce Needs; and a reader for Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies.