Major Charles Daniels
Senior Advisor
National Coordination Office for Space-Based PNT
Major Charlie Daniels is a Department of Defense Senior Advisor 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.
Major Daniels' career includes assignments in a variety of operations positions. Following pilot training in 1990, he was assigned to Air Force Space Command serving in Space Surveillance, Ballistic Missile Warning, and Satellite Command and Control. He served on headquarters staffs in Air Mobility Command and Air Combat Command. In 2005, he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a GPS assessment team, examining military use of GPS.
Prior to his current position, Major Daniels was the Director of the GPS Operations Center at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, USA, where he was responsible for ensuring global GPS users received world-class position, navigation, and timing service.