Stephen Whiting

Stephen Whiting

Stephen N. Whiting is a United States Space Force lieutenant general who serves as the first commander of the Space Operations Command. Prior to that, he was the deputy commander of the Air Force Space Command, which was later redesignated as the Space Force.Whiting was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1989 as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. A space operations officer, he has commanded the 13th Space Warning Squadron, the 614th Air and Space Operations Center and Joint Space Operations Center, the 21st Space Wing, and the Combined Force Space Component Command and 14th Air Force. He had also served staff assignments at the U.S. Air Force headquarters, United States Space Command, United States Strategic Command, the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group, the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Air Force Space Command.

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