Speakers and Moderators
Maj. Gen. James B. Armor, USAF (Ret.)
Founder
The Armor Group
Maj. Gen. James B. Armor Jr. is the Director of the National Security Space Office (NSSO), Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. NSSO is responsible for creating strategic focus and unity of effort across National Security Space to advance space power for the nation.
The general was commissioned in 1973 through the ROTC program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He served as a missile launch officer with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., and laser signals intelligence analyst with the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He was a manned space flight engineer for the NRO at Los Angeles Air Force Station, Calif., and also trained as a shuttle payload specialist. He was first to study information warfare while a National War College research fellow at the National Defense University. At U.S. Air Force Headquarters 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 key access programs. He also served in several program management positions, including directing responsibilities for the navigational, strategic, tactical, and relay Global Positioning System at the Space and Missile Systems Center. At Robins AFB, Ga., he was the Vice Commander of Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the Director, Signals Intelligence Systems Acquisition and Operations Directorate, National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, D.C.
Maj. Gen. Armor received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1973 in psychology and electrical engineering, with honors, from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. and he received his Master of Science degree (Distinguished Graduate) in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
