Jeremy Leader

Deputy Director, Commercial Space Office, Space Systems Command

U.S. Space Force

Mr. Jeremy Leader is the Deputy Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO), Space Systems Command (SSC), United States Space Force; newly expanded in 2023 and charged with enacting the paradigm shift to “buy before build” for all commercial space capabilities. Previously, as a civilian Senior Materiel Leader (SML), he was Deputy Director, Cross Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise (ECX), managing over $5 billion of space programs and a 520+ member organization; he was also the SSC lead for Air Battle Management Systems (ABMS), Kobayashi Maru—USSF’s premier software coding factory for Space Command and Control, and Cross Mission Data—which includes the Unified Data Library (UDL), Warp Core (Envision) platform, and artificial intelligence applications of space data. Mr. Leader was the Air Force Lead, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), where he also enabled rapid acquisition policy reform and modernization for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics). Mr. Leader was the Defense Fellow for former Congressman Jeff Miller, and was also previously the Deputy Chief, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Acquisition Branch, Launch Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) where he led a team to assure both competition and mission success for U.S. National Security Space launch for the next 20 years. He has also served as the Executive Officer to the Executive Director of SMC. Mr. Leader is currently working Warfighting Communications in HAF A2/A6 as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve and has previously deployed world-wide in support of multiple operations. Before his civilian government roles, he worked six years with industry developing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for NASA’s wind tunnels, fuel farms for the Navy and Air Force, co-generation power facilities, and commercial refineries across the globe. Mr. Leader holds a PMP, CISSP, Sec+, and Defense Acquisition certifications in Program Management (III), Engineering (I), and Test/Evaluation (I). In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing ice hockey, and spending time with his wife Laura, an accomplished calligrapher, and their dogs Kepler and Tycho.

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