Col. Jonathan McCall

Deputy Director for Space, ABMS CFT

U.S. Space Force

Colonel Jonathan F. McCall is the Deputy Director for Space, Advanced Battle Management Cross Functional Team, the Pentagon, Washington D.C. In this role, he leads Department of the Air Force (DAF) strategy to modernize command and control, speed decision-making and seamlessly link multi-domain forces. Col McCall represents the DAF in the Joint Long Range Kill Chain Organization (JLO) to ensure US dominance in great power competition.

He also advises team members on technical issues such as engineering, modelling, experimentation, and operations integration to ensure future DAF command and control systems meet tough scientific thresholds of performance for every mission, domain, and time period.

Col McCall was commissioned in 2002 after graduating from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, with a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering. He later went on to earn a master’s degree in aerospace engineering and a Doctorate in astronautical engineering. He has written or co-authored 10 technical papers and co-holds a patent titled, “A Method to Determine Time-Resolved Waveforms of Periodic Unsteady Heat Transfer Coefficient and Adiabatic Wall Temperature.” Col McCall has served in diverse technical, program management and leadership positions in the fields of spacecraft, cyberspace and propulsion. He deployed to Kabul Afghanistan in 2015-2016 as Executive Officer to the Commander, 9th Air Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan and NATO Air Command-Afghanistan, where he helped design and field Afghanistan’s growing Air Force. Col McCall has commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory Detachment 7 at Edwards AFB, California, and the 317th Recruiting Squadron in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Prior to his current assignment, Col McCall served as the first Senior US Space Force Fellow to NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he led explosive safety testing to allow safe and rapid launch of civil and military space missions using next-generation rocket engines.

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