2018 MILCOM

Shannon Pallone
Program Manager, Protected Tactical SATCOM
MILSATCOM Directorate, Space & Missile Systems Center


Ms. Pallone is the Program Manager for the $7B Protected Tactical SATCOM satellite program. She leads a team of over 50 military, civilian and contractor personnel. Ms. Pallone began her career with the Space and Missile Systems Center as a Presidential Management Fellow, and has held a variety of roles in the past decade, to include rotations on staff, with the Spacelift Range and Satellite Control Network Division, as the Executive Officer to the Space and Missile Systems Center Executive Director and as the Deputy Program Manager for GPS III Follow-on Production before joining the MILSATCOM Directorate in November 2015. Ms. Pallone graduated from Duke University in 1999 with Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and received her Master’s Degree in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego, in 2009. Prior to joining the civil service, she worked as a television and film Development Executive, for various non-profit organizations, and as a Staff Geologist for an environmental consulting firm.

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