As Redwire’s Executive Vice President of National Security Strategy and Special Programs, Col. Bellamy brings his experience and expertise in strategic planning and program management in both the private sector and as a military officer to set and achieve new space development goals while meeting the needs of Redwire’s national security customers.

Col. Bellamy leads Redwire’s national security strategy and ensures Redwire provides the U.S. Department of War, military services, allies, commercial partners, and the Intelligence Community with resilient, affordable, and dynamic defense systems.

Prior to joining Redwire, Col. Bellamy was Vice President of Space Strategies and Development at national security technology company Peraton. In that position, he led Peraton’s space resilience campaign and produced long-range strategies to help Peraton meet its space portfolio’s objectives. Peraton’s critical space capabilities included the development of secure cloud platform as a service for ground battle management command and control, development of indications and warning tools for the National Space Defense Center and National Reconnaissance Operations Center, flight safety and conjunction assessment support to the National Reconnaissance Operations Center, development and operations of commercial and civil ground stations, operations and maintenance of NASA’s space network, near-earth network, and deep space network. Col. Bellamy drew on his expert knowledge of program management, leadership, and satellite operations developed through his years of service in the military. In addition to developing these strategies, Col. Bellamy took an active role in their implementation.

Before joining Peraton in September 2018, Col. Bellamy was a career United States Air Force officer, retiring with the rank of Colonel. During his tenure in the Air Force, Col. Bellamy served in a variety of positions related to satellite operations and acted in a variety of other engineering and leadership roles. His most recent position as an Air Force officer was as Chief of the Policy and Strategy Group in the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). As Chief, he led the development and implementation of the Integrated Protection Strategy, which was the first update of the space strategy in 35-years. Col. Bellamy oversaw the NRO’s Space Enterprise Vision activities and served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office’s interagency representative to various high-level defense, intelligence, and government groups such as the Space Enterprise Vision, National Security Council, National Space Council, Space Defense Council, and Department of State. He also developed and implemented space policy and strategies for U.S. intelligence satellites.

Col. Bellamy earned master’s degrees in aeronautical science, strategic intelligence and strategic studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the Joint Military Intelligence College, and Air War College, respectively. He also completed the executive leadership course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is a certified acquisitions level three program manager. Col. Bellamy was awarded the 2018 National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement medal by the Director of National Intelligence and was recognized by the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office as the NRO’s 2018 Jimmy D. Hill awardee for meritorious service for the development of the Integrated Protection Strategy.