Colonel Christopher A. Eagan

Deputy Director, National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing

PNT logo Colonel Christopher A. Eagan is the Deputy Director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. He leads a 13-person team of joint senior advisors from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, and Transportation and six other federal agencies to develop national-level reports and studies for the National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Executive Committee and for the Executive Office of the President. Colonel Eagan is responsible for information sharing, coordination, and issue resolution on space-based positioning, navigation, and timing programs, as well as requirements, budgets, and policies across the federal government.

Colonel Eagan has served in a variety of space and missile operations assignments as crew commander, instructor, chief of training, flight commander, operations officer, and squadron commander. A graduate of the USAF Weapons School, he planned and executed extensive space operations for US Pacific Command, led the development of space policy, doctrine, and strategic studies for Air Force Space Command, oversaw all counterspace-related intelligence analysis and production at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and led the planning and programming activities for all Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems at Headquarters Air Force. Prior to his current assignment, Colonel Eagan was an Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands fellow at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.

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