Christopher Huynh is a Major in the U.S. Space Force and is a National Defense Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). He has led teams at the Western Range supporting spacelift operations and missile testing, as well as at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), where he tailored intelligence support for warfighters and policymakers. He later served as Chief of Academic Affairs for Guardian Education, where he played a key role in establishing an independent professional military education program for space warfighters. Most recently, he was the Operations Officer for Future Operations at the NRO, leading multi-agency efforts to protect and defend Department of Defense and Intelligence Community capabilities in space.
He was commissioned from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Science and Geointelligence, and later received a Master of Engineering in Applied Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.