Captain Morgan Malone

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Captain Morgan Malone

Operations Flight Commander / Education Officer

Email: mbmalone@g.ucla.edu
Office: SAC Room 210
Phone: 310-825-1742 Ext.3

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Biography

Captain Morgan Malone is the Education Officer and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies at Detachment 055, University of California Los Angeles. She is responsible for leading, recruiting, training, counseling, and evaluating Air and Space Force Officer candidates in their preparation to commission as Officers.

Capt Malone commissioned into the Air Force as an Acquisitions Management Officer and Space Operations Officer. She has served as a Satellite Vehicle Operator of over 30 Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites, and garnered engineering experience by working with Boeing and Lockheed Martin contractors as a GPS Satellite Vehicle Subsystem Analyst. Capt Malone has Program Management expertise in technology maturation and engineering development. She recently served as Deputy Integrated Planning Team lead of the Systems Engineering Integration and Test unit for the ACAT-1 GPS III and GPS III Follow on Programs. She also deployed as the Space representative coordinating strategic level operational planning for the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve across Iraq and Syria.

Capt Malone has been active duty in the United States Air Force since commissioning from the United States Air Force Academy in 2015. She received her Bachelor of Science in Management from the United States Air Force Academy.

Degrees

  • 2015 Bachelor of Science Degree in Management, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado.
  • 2021 MBA: Master of Business for Veterans, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
  • 2021 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
  • 2022 Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, by correspondence

Awards

Awards

  • Joint Service Commendation Medal
  • Air and Space Commendation Medal
  • Air and Space Achievement Medal
  • National Defense Service Medal
  • Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal
  • Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
  • Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal
  • Air and Space Longevity Service Award with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster

Effective Dates of Promotion

  • Second Lieutenant, 2015
  • First Lieutenant, 2017
  • Captain, 2019

Assignments

  1. July 2015- July 2017: Satellite Vehicle Operator, 2d Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, Colorado Springs, CO
  2. July 2017-July 2018: Global Positioning System Subsystem Analyst/Engineer, 2d Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, Colorado Springs, CO
  3. July 2018-September 2019: Program Manager, Remote Sensing Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center Los Angeles AFB, El Segundo, CA
  4. September 2019-July 2020: Space and Special Technical Operations Planner, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve Headquarters
  5. July 2020-July2022: Deputy, Systems Engineering Test and Integration Global Positioning System Follow-On Program, Space Systems Command, Los Angeles AFB, El Segundo, CA
  6. July 2022-Present: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies, AFROTC Detachment 055, University of California, Los Angeles