Stu Pettis
Partner
Colonel Pettis served 29-years in the United States Air Force where he served primarily in space operations. He served in space operations and policy assignments at Headquarters Space Force and Air Force, major command, numbered air force, and unit level. Colonel Pettis served on the Secretary of the Air Force’s Space Force Planning Team, where he helped oversee the establishment of the new service and well as the Headquarters Space Force’s operations functions. He also commanded Thule Air Base, as well as the 1st Air Support Operations Squadron where he also served as the Air Liaison Officer for the United States Army’s 1st Armored Division. Between October 2007 and May 2008, he led the 1st Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron during the surge in Iraq. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Weapons School and a former National Defense Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He was a contributor to the book Space Power Integration: Perspectives of Space Weapons Officers and contributed articles to Breaking Defense, Space News, Air Chronicles, and The High Frontier. He appeared on the Mitchell Institute’s Aerospace Advantage and the Aerospace Center for Space Policy and Strategy’s Space Policy podcasts.