Joseph Rouge

Joseph D. Rouge, a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service, is the Deputy Director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Space Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. In this capacity, he serves as the deputy senior Intelligence Advisor to the Chief of Space Operations and is responsible to the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Space Operations for policy formulation, planning, evaluation, oversight and leadership of Space Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. In his previous assignment, as a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader, he was the Technical Advisor for Space and Cyberspace ISR capabilities in AF/A2/6, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Pentagon, Arlington, Virgnia. He advised on intelligence-related space and cyber activities and ensured AF/A2/6 effectively participated in Air Force, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community planning activities and policy development for space and cyber activities. Prior to that assignment, as a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service, he was the Director, National Security Space Office, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va. He was responsible for leading a multi-agency unit tasked to create unity of effort across all of National Security Space. Specifically, the NSSO was responsible for promoting synergy and integrating interagency space policy, strategy, acquisition, launch, planning programming and technology development. Mr. Rouge is a graduate of the ROTC program at the University of Southern California where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering. He came on active duty in September 1974, serving in a variety of positions involving ballistic missile systems, space surveillance systems, Strategic Defense Initiative programs, strategic war planning and BM/C2 systems, and systems engineering and program integration. He has served on the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, at the Air Force Inspection Agency, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Headquarters U.S. Strategic Command, and on the staff at Headquarters U.S. Air Force. He was both a Research Fellow both at the Airpower Research Institute, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, authoring books on military space strategy and national security strategy respectively. He also served as a joint specialty officer. Mr. Rouge retired from active duty in June 2004 as Chief of NSSO's Integration Division, and then served as a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Services as the Associate Director of NSSO before assuming the position of Director of NSSO.

EDUCATION

-1973 Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

-1974 Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, USC, Los Angeles

-1977 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1982 Master of Science, Business Administration, Auburn University, Ala.

-1982 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence

-1987 Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.

-1987 Program Management Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, Va.