Jason Kim was named CEO of Firefly Aerospace
beginning on October 1, 2024. He has 25 years of
experience in executive management involving
satellites, rockets, ground systems, and autonomous
systems in support of National Security, NASA, and
commercial missions. Over his tenure he has
supported hundreds of satellite missions.
Previously he served as chief executive officer of Millennium Space Systems, a non-fully
integrated Boeing subsidiary based in El Segundo, California delivering LEO, MEO, and GEO
small satellite constellations for Missile Warning, Missile Tracking, Space Domain Awareness,
and classified missions. Prior to that he was the business development executive at Raytheon
Intelligence & Space, where he led a team to fully develop and execute a global and domestic
growth strategy. He worked to meet the growth goals of a vertically integrated, multi-billion-
dollar space and command-and-control business.
From 2006 to 2019, Kim demonstrated his ability to grow companies as vice president of
Strategic Planning at Millennium Space Systems and as a program manager at Northrop
Grumman Aerospace Systems. He served as a program manager in the U.S. Air Force’s Space
from 1999 to 2006 Superiority Systems Program and Reconnaissance Systems Program
offices, where he gained a deep background in advancing autonomous systems starting on
unmanned aerial vehicle programs such as the Global Hawk and Predator and growing to
acquisitions and developments of first-of-its-kind classified and unclassified space and ground
systems.
Kim serves on the Air Force Academy Foundation Board of Directors, the Space Workforce for
Tomorrow as an Executive Committee Member and is a US Air Force Veteran.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering. He received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the
Air Force Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the
University of California at Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.