Advisory Committee
Major General James B. Armor Jr.
President
The Armor Group, LLC
Maj. Gen. James B. Armor Jr. is Director, National Security Space Office, Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for integrating and coordinating defense and intelligence space activities to achieve unity of effort. He also advises the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Director, National Intelligence, on matters affecting national security space capabilities.
General Armor was commissioned in 1973 through the ROTC program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He has served as a combat crew missile launch officer, a laser signal intelligence analyst, and a satellite launch system integrator. In addition, he trained as a Space Shuttle payload specialist, and was first to study information warfare while a research fellow at the National War College. At Headquarters U.S. Air Force he served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations, and in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition where he worked various special access programs. General Armor has held several program management positions, including Program Director of the Global Positioning System at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. The general also served as Vice Commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB, Ga. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Director, Signals Intelligence Systems Acquisition and Operations at the National Reconnaissance Office.
