Lieutenant General Nina Armagno

Lieutenant General Nina Armagno is the director of staff at Headquarters US Space Force in Washington, DC. In this role, she synchronizes and integrates policy, plans, positions, procedures, and cross-functional issues for the headquarters staff. Prior to her current assignment, she was director of space programs at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, in Washington, DC, where she directed development and purchasing on space programs to Air Force major commands, product centers, and laboratories. Lieutenant General Armagno earned her commission and graduated from the US Air Force Academy in June 1988. Her experience in space systems operations includes combat-mission-ready operator, instructor, evaluator, and flight commander in strategic missile warning, space surveillance, space control, space launch, and theater missile warning mission areas. Lieutenant General Armagno has also served as director of plans and policy of US Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. She was directly responsible to the USSTRATCOM Commander for the development and implementation of national security policy and guidance, military strategy and guidance, space and weapons employment policy, and concepts and joint doctrine as they apply to the command and the execution of its mission.