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Col. Matthew Bruno
Colonel Matthew P. Bruno is the Deputy Center Director Senior Intelligence Officer, and Vice Commander, Space Delta 15, at the National Space Defense Center, Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. He, along with mission partners across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, ensures synchronization and unified action in the space warfighting domain to conduct intelligence and space superiority operations to deter aggression against the U.S. and allies, to protect and defend space capabilities and when directed to defeat our adversaries. Colonel Bruno recently served as the Chief, Intelligence Integration Directorate and Deputy Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Space Training and Readiness Command. Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
Colonel Bruno, originally from New Castle, Pennsylvania, earned his Air Force commission through the United States Air Force Officer Training School in 2001 at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Colonel Bruno is an Intelligence Officer with over 23 years of operational experience and a certified Political Affairs Specialist.
Colonel Bruno’s intelligence operations background includes numerous leadership roles at squadron, group, inter-agency, field command, and joint functional command levels in South Korea, Nevada, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, Arizona, and Virginia. Also, Colonel Bruno has served as a Squadron Section Commander, Combat Plans Officer, Education and Training Officer, Watch Officer, Embassy Security Cooperation Chief, and Mission Manager. In May 2021, Bruno transferred to the United States Space Force, the nation’s newest military service.
Colonel Bruno is a master intelligence officer and has deployed three times in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and NEW DAWN. Colonel Bruno has led Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance operations on multiple deployments. In 2008, he led the Future Operations Cell for the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare for USCENTCOM. In 2009 to 2010, he deployed to Camp Slayer, Iraq as the Officer in Charge, Translations, Analysis and Production, Document and Media Exploitation, United States Forces Iraq. In 2011, Colonel Bruno served as Chief, Document and Media Exploitation for United States Division Center at Camp Liberty, Iraq, directing 23 Airmen and civilians supporting warfighters and decision makers.
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