Major Charles Daniels
Senior Advisor
National Coordination Office for Space-Based PNT
Major Charlie Daniels is a Department of Defense representative to the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing in Washington, D.C. The National Coordination Office is the Executive Secretariat for the National Executive Committee, the senior U.S. government policy body for positioning, navigation, and timing.
In 2005, he was selected to be a member of a 3 person GPS assessment team; traveling the entirety of Iraq and some locations in Afghanistan over a three month period. The assessment team investigated GPS service interruptions that led to loss of military equipment, military missions or life. The team's final report detailed 7 major findings and was provided to the Office of Secretary Defense.
Major Daniels' career includes assignments in a variety of operations positions. Following pilot training in 1990, he joined Air Force Space Command and has served in Space Surveillance, Missile Warning, and Satellite Command and Control. He has served on staff in the Air Force Command and Control Agency, HQs Air Mobility Command and HQís Air Combat Command.
Prior to his current assignment, Major Daniels was the Director of the GPS Operations Center at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, where he was responsible for ensuring global war fighters received world-class position, navigation, and timing support 24 hours each day.