Colonel Russell Teehan is the Portfolio Architect of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). He leads a team of roughly 200 personnel charged with spearheading the Center’s activities to design an integrated space enterprise architecture and partner with other commercial, allied, government agencies and our industry partners to enable SMC to smartly design, rapidly acquire, and expeditiously integrate the weapon systems needed to support today’s fight and the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Teehan was commissioned in 1993 by USAF Academy. His career has included a variety of assignments ranging from basic weapons research at Air Force Research Laboratory, teaching Physics at USAF Academy, special programs management at the Space and Missiles Systems Center, and a multitude of Air Staff and OSD Pentagon staff assignments. He recently served as the Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site where he led a team of 800 personnel and an annual budget of $300 million focused on advancing technologies to prototype the next generation of Air Force space capabilities