Corey L. Trusty, U.S. Space Force, is a Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Colonel Trusty most recently served as the military deputy, international affairs space division, at the Pentagon. Colonel Trusty currently creates, advocates for, and facilitates Department of the Air Force and U.S. Space Force space security cooperation policies and programs that advance U.S. national security objectives through political-military affairs, cooperative research and development, acquisition, and foreign military sales. Those policies and programs enable access to information, systems, education, and training that deliver enhanced operational capabilities to allies, partners, and coalition warfighters.
Colonel Trusty was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June 2004 with a master’s degree in public health from American Military University and a bachelor’s degree in biology and bioethics from Tuskegee University. He is a career space officer, but has diverse experience in ballistic missile early warning, space domain awareness, spacelift, space control, intelligence, cyber, nuclear deterrence operations and special operations. He has deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and International Security Assistance Force.