WASHINGTON — The White House has nominated Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess as the third-ever Chief of Space Operations, setting him up to succeed Gen. Chance Saltzman as the head of America’s youngest military service.
Schiess currently serves as the Space Force’s deputy chief of operations, with overall responsibility for development and implementation of service policy, and acts as Saltzman’s deputy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He was previously double hatted as head of Space Forces–Space, the Space Force’s component command to US Space Command, and head of the command’s Combined Joint Space Force Component at Vandenberg SFB, Calif.
Thus, he has experience both in managing the Space Force’s bureaucracy and in day-to-day operations, exercises and mission…
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