Brig. Gen. Stephen G. Purdy Jr. is dual-hatted as Director, Requirements, Architectures and Analysis and Director, Plans, Programs and Financial Management, Headquarters United States Space Force, Peterson Air Force, Base, Colorado. He is responsible for developing strategy, doctrine and policy for the command’s space operations, defining the future of space systems through requirements definition, mission-area architectures, analysis, science and technology development and insertion in support of the joint warfighter, Department of Defense, civil and national users. He is also responsible for planning, programming, budget execution and auditing of an $87 billion budget that provides agile, integrated and resilient space and cyberspace capabilities for the joint force and the nation while also leading the Space Force’s Special Access Program and security activities.

Mr. Gordon Kordyak is the Chief of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Directorate at SMC.