SpaceCom 2022
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FEBRUARY 21-23, 2023
ORLANDO, FL
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Lt Col Michael "Leon" Killings

Division Chief, Future Operations and Branch Chief, Rapid Payload Delivery
SSC/S3F and AATS/AA3

Profile

ieutenant Colonel Killings serves as Division Chief, Future Operations, Space Systems Command, Operations Directorate (SSC/S35) and Branch Chief, Rapid Payload Delivery, Assured Access to Space Division (AATS/AA3), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. In these roles, he leads development of mission directives, operational concepts, and combat integration pathways, as well as doctrine reviews, emerging capability assessment and exploration of space access, mobility, and logistics technologies focused on bridging the gap between current terrestrial space force enhancement and future space domain-centric combat support/combat service support operations.

Lieutenant Colonel Killings earned his commission and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Central Florida serving 17 years in the U.S. Air Force before transitioning to the U.S Space Force in July 2021. Prior to his current position, Lieutenant Colonel Killings performed duties as the Space Launch Delta 45 and Eastern Range Inspector General. His assignments have covered mission areas in space launch and national system operations, rapid and major system acquisitions, and Air Force Expeditionary deployment in support of U.S. Operation Freedom's Sentinel and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Resolute Support Mission.

EDUCATION
2004 Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.
2004 Officer Space Pre-requisite Training Course (Space 100), Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
2005 Air and Space Basic Course (ASBC), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2011 Squadron Officer School (in residence), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2011 Master of Science, Systems Engineering, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minn.
2014 Air Command and Staff College (correspondence), Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2017 Post-Master’s Certification, Data Science, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, Calif.

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