Lt Col Matthew J. Lintker

About

Lieutenant Colonel Matthew J. Lintker, representing the US Space Force, was a national security affairs fellow for the academic year 2023–24 at the Hoover Institution.

Lieutenant Colonel Lintker is a space operations officer with a background in military and intelligence community operations, having deployed and served in US Space Command, in the National Reconnaissance Office, and on the Department of the Air Force staff. Most recently, he commanded the US Space Force’s premier space domain awareness squadron, responsible for the continuous tracking and characterization of more than 45,000 man-made objects in space, in addition to executing US Space Command’s Space Situational Awareness agreements providing data to more than 170 partners from the commercial sector, academia, and foreign and intergovernmental agencies. Lieutenant Colonel Lintker graduated from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor of science in animal science. He also holds a master of business administration from Columbia Southern, a master of military operational art and science from Air University, and a master of philosophy in military strategy from Air University. His research interests include grand strategy, international relations, and space norms of behavior.