SCAPR welcomes Colonel Scott Klempner for our September luncheon. Colonel Klempner is the Deputy PEO, Space Combat Power Systems at Space Systems Command.

Details

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Location: Embassy Suites El Segundo (1440 E Imperial Ave, El Segundo, CA 90245)

Agenda:

• 11:30 Networking
• 12:00 Lunch
• 12:30 Speaker
• 13:00 Adjourn

As always, members are free with RSVP. Guests of members can be purchased on the website for $40.  Please RSVP no later than 1pm on Monday, September 8.

Speaker Bio

Col. Scott L. Klempner is the Deputy Program Executive Officer for Space Combat Power at the Space Force’s Space Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. He guides a $17+ billion portfolio of over 30 programs encompassing the space control, space domain awareness, space combat power, and cyber operations mission areas. Additionally, he assists the PEO in approving program strategies, delivering programs to meet warfighter needs and engaging with the Air Staff, Service Acquisition Executive, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and other Departments and Agencies.
Col. Klempner received his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in 1998 as a distinguished graduate. He has operational experience as a Minuteman III ICBM combat crew commander, evaluator, instructor, and flight commander. He has led the development, test, and fielding of multiple space vehicle, space payload, and advanced ISR capabilities across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Col. Klempner served as Materiel Leader, a command-equivalent position, for NRO Ground Enterprise Directorate’s geospatial intelligence processing systems. He has also served as an exchange detailee to the U.S. State Department as well as Division Chief for Space Control and Remote Sensing systems under the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. Prior to his current position, Col. Klempner was the Senior Materiel Leader and Deputy Director of the NRO’s Survivability Assurance Office.
Col. Klempner is a member of the DoD acquisition corps and holds Defense Acquisition certifications in program management and systems engineering.

EDUCATION
1998 Bachelor of Science, Astronautical Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy
1999 Master of Engineering, Space Operations, University of Colorado
2003 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala. (correspondence/residence)
2008 Doctor of Philosophy, Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
2008 Air Command and Staff College (correspondence/residence credit)
2017 Air Force Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C.

ASSIGNMENTS
1. July 1998 – May 1999, Student, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colo.
2. May 1999 – December 1999, Student, Undergraduate Space and Missile Training and Minuteman III Initial Qualification Training, 392nd Training Squadron, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
3. December 1999 – July 2003, ICBM Combat Crew Commander, 91st Space Wing, Minot AFB, N.D.
4. July 2003 – September 2006, Student, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.