Rhett Butler
Senior Vice President and Vice President
2024 Space Warfighting Forum (SWF) : Threat Update
Mr. Rhett Butler serves as Senior Vice President and Vice President of the National Security Space Sector for ExoAnalytic Solutions. He is also a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Butler leads the Colorado Springs Regional Office and oversees cutting edge modeling and simulation development, space control analysis, and operational support to the warfighter.
Mr. Butler began his career as an Air Force Space Operations Officer from the United States Air Force Academy in 1987. After Undergraduate Space Training, he was one of the first Lieutenants ever hand-picked for assignment to the National Reconnaissance Office. Over the next 20 years he built, launched, tracked, and operated our nation’s most vital intelligence assets. His assignments included Intelligence Community (IC) ground sites, the Office of Special Projects, Chief of the Space Vault Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, and the Chief of Staff’s Office at the Automated Data Facility at Buckley AFB. In 2007 Mr. Butler retired from the Air Force, and immediately made an impact as a Space Control Subject Matter Expert for Northrop Grumman, TASC, and now ExoAnalytic Solutions.
Mr. Butler earned a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from Denver University. In addition, he is a graduate of the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College and has earned Acquisition Program Management Level I & II certification.
Speakers
- Bill Adkins
- RADM Heidi Berg USN
- Hon Heidi Bingen
- Dan Bourque
- Lt Gen Dave Buck
- Rhett Butler
- BG John Dawber USA
- Mike Dickey
- COL Edward Ferguson USSF Ret
- Israel Figueroa
- BRIG Christopher Gardiner AM
- MG Brian Gibson USA
- Robert Hauge
- BGen Christopher Horner RCAF
- Thomas Lockhart
- Maj Gen Harold Punch Moulton II
- Brig Gen Paul Dino Murray USAF Ret
- Dr John Plumb
- Ben Reed
- Lt Gen Doug Schiess USSF
- CMSgt Jacob Simmons
- Jennifer Stewart
- Maj Gen Paul Tedman RAF
- Gen whiting