True Anomaly

Served nearly a decade as a U.S. Air Force Space Operations officer with the 4th Space Operations Squadron, where he led development and evaluation of military space systems and tactics. He was a Service Chiefs Fellow at DARPA and a rendezvous and proximity operations intern at NASA Johnson Space Center. He is the author of foundational U.S. military space doctrine texts including Spacepower: Doctrine for Space Forces. He co-founded True Anomaly in 2022 with fellow 4th SOPS veterans to develop hardware and software for space domain awareness and orbital security.

Served as a Space Operations officer in the U.S. Air Force and as a space aggressor in the Air Force Reserve. Prior to co-founding True Anomaly he was an RF R&D engineer at Los Alamos National Lab, designing digital signal processing algorithms and serving as principal investigator for nuclear counter-proliferation RF capabilities. He co-founded True Anomaly in 2022 and served as CTO before departing in August 2024 to co-found Citra Space Corporation, focused on space object characterization.

Holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Air Force as Chief of Protected SATCOM Training and Chief of Orbital Warfare Training, including the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron simulating adversary space capabilities. He subsequently worked at Ball Aerospace as a GN&C Engineer and at Lockheed Martin and Honeywell Aerospace. He co-founded True Anomaly in 2022 and serves as Chief Engineering Officer, leading spacecraft systems development.

Served over a decade as a U.S. Air Force Space Operations officer with the 4th Space Operations Squadron, managing space-based defense assets and developing space domain awareness tactics. His frustration with limitations in SDA capabilities during military service drove him to co-found True Anomaly in 2022 alongside Even Rogers and other 4th SOPS colleagues. He served as COO, CPO, and Chief of Mission Operations before departing in August 2024 to co-found Citra Space Corporation with Daniel Brunski.