Speakers and Moderators
COL Patrick Rayermann
Chief, Space & Missile Defense Division
U.S. Army
Colonel Patrick H. Rayermann was raised in Southern California where he had the opportunity to begin his professional life as an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1981, he graduated from UCLA and its ROTC program with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Signal Corps. As a company grade officer, he served as an assistant project manager at Ft Monmouth, NJ, a planning officer with the 7th Signal Brigade and the Commander of A Co, 44th Signal Battalion which used the TRI-TAC communications system he helped to develop while at Ft Monmouth and which he deployed to Northern Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort which provided relief to the Kurds of Northern Iraq in 1991.
Colonel Rayermann's field grade assignments have included Executive Officer and Commander, 1st Satellite Control Battalion, manager of all logistics support throughout the Former Soviet Union for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program which serves to eliminate, neutralize or safeguard elements of what was the Soviet strategic arsenal, and Chief of Space Operations at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
In 1985, Colonel Rayermann began his involvement in bringing space to Army warfighters when he served as a member of the Army Space Initiatives Study. He continued to make space support relevant to the warfighter during his assignments with the 7th Signal Brigade, the 44th Signal Bn, the 1st Satellite Control (SATCON) Battalion and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In 1999, he became one of the initial officers designated as a Space Operations expert (Functional Area 40) within the US Army. His most recent assignment was as the G3 of US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USA SMDC/ARSTRAT) where he was responsible for synchronizing SMDC/ARSTRAT's execution of its responsibilities in its diverse range of missions including space and missile defense. Colonel Rayermann is presently assigned to the Headquarters, Department of the Army as the Chief of the Space and Missile Defense Division in the Army G-3/5/7.
COL Rayermann's military training includes the Signal Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Army's Combined Arms and Services Staff School, the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He holds master's degrees in Computer Resources & Information Management and also in Strategic Studies.
His awards and honors include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, First Oak Leaf Cluster; the Meritorious Service Medal, Third Oak Leaf Cluster; the Joint Commendation Medal; the Army Commendation Medal; the Joint Service Achievement Medal; the Army Achievement Medal, First Oak Leaf Cluster; the Humanitarian Service Medal, the Senior Air Force Space and Missile Badge and Honor Graduate, Signal Officer's Advanced Course.
