- Saltzman served as the second chief of space operations
- He will advise on space and defense efforts and the threat environment
- Saltzman is a four-time Wash100 awardee
Voyager Technologies has named Ret. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman chairman of its board of advisers, bringing on the officer who led the Space Force as its second chief of space operations.
Voyager said Monday that Saltzman will provide counsel on its space and defense work, customer requirements, and the evolving threat environment.
Who Is B. Chance Saltzman?
Saltzman held the Space Force’s top uniformed post from November 2022, managing the organize, train and equip functions for all organic and assigned forces worldwide. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he advised the president, the secretary of war and the National Security Council.
He assumed the role following his tenure as deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear. His executive staff experience includes serving as specialist assistant to the vice chief of the Air Force, alongside a dual-hatted assignment as deputy commander of Air Forces Central Command and deputy combined force air component commander at U.S. Central Command. His operational background includes work as a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer and as a satellite operator with the National Reconnaissance Office. He was commissioned after graduating from Boston University in 1991 and succeeded Ret. Gen. John Raymond as chief of space operations.
As CSO, Saltzman issued Vector 2025, which set out the service’s core priorities and its theory of success, called Competitive Endurance, built on denying adversaries a first-mover advantage and conducting counterspace operations without creating debris.
His Space Warfighting: A Framework for Planners laid out how guardians would pursue space superiority across orbital, electromagnetic and cyberspace mission areas. He pushed acquisition toward speed over perfection, telling an Air, Space and Cyber Conference audience that effective systems do not require perfection to be combat credible, and entered the Space Force into a partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on its Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking effort.
Saltzman holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Boston University and master’s degrees from the University of Montana and George Washington University. He is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Weapons School and the Air Command and Staff College, and graduated from the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Commenting on his new role at Voyager, Saltzman said: “The national security space mission is expanding faster than industry can currently meet it. Voyager has the technology, the agility and the ambition to help close that gap, and I’m looking forward to helping the team turn that potential into capability for our services.”
Voyager President Matt Kuta said Saltzman’s judgment will sharpen how the company serves customers and competes for programs as national security, defense and civil space converge.
What Is the Wash100 Award?
The Wash100 Award, presented annually by Executive Mosaic since 2014, recognizes the most influential executives in the government contracting sector for leadership, innovation, achievement and vision.
Saltzman has won four consecutive times, most recently in 2026, for advancing space technologies, pursuing government collaborations and positioning the U.S. for national security success in space.
