VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. –
Senior leaders from U.S. Space Command's office of plans and policy, accompanied by Adjutants General from the National Guard of California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Virginia, visited Space Forces-Space as part of a senior leader engagement tour associated with Global Sentinel 2025, May 9.
The visit, led by U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Brian W. Gibson, director, Plans and Policy, USSPACECOM and Royal Air Force Air Commodore Darren Whiteley, deputy director, Plans and Policy, USSPACECOM, followed Gibson’s closing remarks at USSPACECOM’s Global Sentinel 2025 capstone event.
Global Sentinel 2025, the command's premier space security cooperation exercise, brought together nearly 30 partner nations and NATO for two weeks of collaboration at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
During their time at S4S headquarters, the senior leaders conducted an office call with U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Frank Kincaid, deputy commander, S4S. They also met with USSPACECOM liaison officers, toured various launch facilities, and received several mission update briefs.
The mission of S4S is to plan, integrate, conduct, and assess global space operations to deliver combat-relevant space effects in, from and to space for combatant commanders, coalition partners, the joint force, and the nation.