Major Erin Salinas, U.S Space Officer, is currently serving on a Space Superiority Panel at the Pentagon. She has just transitioned from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force within the past month. She has spent assignments in a variety of mission sets in her career to include missiles, space domain awareness, and offensive space control. She commissioned into the U.S. Air Force in 2006 from the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Program and has a Masters degree from the University of Maryland.