Col Ryan M. Colburn

Col Ryan M. Colburn is the Director of the Spectrum Warfare Division, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, California. In this role, he leads a team charged with designing and integrating the United States Space Force’s current and future integrated Satellite Communications (SATCOM) and Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) enterprise architectures. He works with military, commercial, allied and government partners to ensure SMC is able to design, acquire, integrate and field the space systems needed to support today’s warfighters on the battlefield of tomorrow. Col Colburn was raised near Sacramento, California and entered the Air Force in 1998 after graduating from Seattle Pacific University and commissioning through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Washington. He has served in various levels of program management, staff and command positions for AFRL, ACC, DCMA, AFMC, SMC and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Prior to this position, Col Colburn served as the Support Cell Chief for the Space Development Agency, responsible for the strategy, architecting and acquisition of all space launch services, ground based command and control systems, operational planning and training, and user equipment for the Agency.