Kyle Kemble (AeroEngr BS'13, MS'13)

Kyle Kemble is the Space Data Transport Division Chief at the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) in the United States Space Force (USSF).

The SWAC is chartered to develop analytically derived force designs to guide mission area strategies informing the investment priorities for the Chief of Space Operations. In Kyle’s case this is focused on the communications services to support both satellites and terrestrial warfighters across the globe.

As the DoD pivots into a JADC2 era the evolving user and threat landscapes challenge how services are currently rendered – Force Designs are developed to balance the performance needs of users, enable “Resilient-by-Design” services for a contested environment, and determine affordable courses of action to mitigate operational liabilities.

In 2021 the Space Data Transport division released the Data Transmit & Receive Network Force Design for USSF satellite operations, and in 2022 the team released the overarching Space Data Transport Force Design Topology to describe Resilient-By-Design services for the warfighter. Now the division is currently investigating government reference architectures for Broadband, Mobile, and Space Transport Services.

Prior to joining the SWAC from 2013-2020 Kyle worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles directorate where he was a program manager in the Small Satellite Portfolio. There he led 6 flight missions investigating technologies enabling small satellite missions for the DoD, as well as distributed and disaggregated systems for hybrid architectures.

During his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder in partnership with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium (COSGC) he was involved with the AFRL University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) fifth competition cycle with the Drag & Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer that launched in 2013.