General Stephen Whiting
Commander, U.S. Space Force Command
Stephen Newman Whiting was born in September 1967 in Ocean Spring, Mississippi. He earned an undergraduate degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He later received a master’s from George Washington University. He also earned a master’s in national security and policy making from the Air Command and Staff College. He participated in and attended numerous other educational opportunities offered through the military.
Whiting served in the U.S. Air Force and completed space training in Colorado. He served in the 6th Space Warning Squadron before becoming a radar systems officer at the 21st Operation Support Squadron. He served as the 21st Operation Group executive officer, then later as 22nd Space Operations Squadron operations officer. After being assigned as regional policy officer at U.S. Space Command, he performed the same duties in the U.S. Strategic Command.
Whiting later served as commander of the 13th Space Warning Squadron before commanding the 614th Air and Space Operations Center and directing the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB. He served as chief of staff U.S. Air Force Fellow at Chief of Naval Operations before commanding the 21st Space Wing.
Whiting was promoted to brigadier general and served as vice commander of the Air Force Warfare Center, then he headed Air Force Space Command’s (AFSPC) Space Enterprise Vision Team. He became commander of the Fourteenth Air Force and deputy commander of the Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC). As the U.S. Space Force was being established, he took command of the new Combined Force Space Component Command, then served as deputy commander of the U.S. Space Force.
Whiting was among the first general officers nominated to transfer to the Space Force, and was promoted to general. He became the first commander of the Space Operations Command in 2020. He was nominated and confirmed as commander of the U.S. Space Command in 2023.
Whiting is married to Tammy Lynn.
In the News…
Space Force General Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, spoke about the effort of the U.S. and Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand to develop a plan for conducting future “orbital warfare” via a collective concept of operations (CONOPS).
General Whiting said, “[W]e are in the process now of building a defense of orbital assets CONOPS together. So, how do we leverage all these capabilities that these nations will be bringing with our capabilities to deconflict them at a minimum, but really we want to be able to integrate them, synchronize them and synergize them going forward.”
“I expect it to be finished by about the end of this year,” General Whiting said.
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