He also completed seminar programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard Kennedy School.

[8] Saltzman's other professional military education included attending Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air War College, National Security Space Institute, Center for Creative Leadership, National Defense University, Institute for Defense Business, and LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education.

He also served as the on-console launch officer and led early-orbit engineering checkout for a $1 billion NRO satellite.

[7] On 11 January 2007, then-Lieutenant Colonel Saltzman was serving under Colonel Stephen N. Whiting, then the director of the Joint Space Operations Center, and with Major DeAnna Burt, who succeeded Saltzman as chief of combat plans, when the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test occurred.

Recalling what he believes is the key date of modern military space operations history, Whiting noted, "We watched that test unfold over time, and we led the response for U.S. STRATCOM.

[7] In September 2016, General David L. Goldfein outlined his three priorities as chief of staff of the United States Air Force.

Saltzman, who was then director of future operations at the Air Force headquarters, was handpicked by Goldfein to lead the multi-domain command and control (MDC2) effort.

[12][13] He served as director of Air Force Strategic Integration Group, running the service’s yearlong study of MDC2.

[14][15] For his work on MDC2, he has been called as the "father of multi-domain operations", which is now known in the United States Department of Defense as joint all-domain command and control.

By July 2020, after his tour in Southwest Asia, he went back to the Pentagon to serve as acting director of staff of the United States Space Force, a post held by retiring Major General Clinton Crosier.

I think that sends a really strong message that this is an armed service, and we are about deterring conflict that could begin or extend into space.

[23] As chief operations officer, Saltzman plays a key role in defining readiness in the Space Force.

[16] The outgoing CSO, General Raymond, with whom he has close personal ties dating back years, strongly supported his selection.

[30][31] In his opening statement, he mentioned three broad fronts he would focus on as CSO: maturing as an independent service, leveraging partnerships, and innovating to accomplish missions.

[33] As chief, Saltzman has sent out "C-notes" to guardians as a means of communicating with them, an adaptation of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's "Z-grams".

[34] In a series of three C-notes in January 2023, he released three lines of efforts that would guide his term as chief: (1) fielding combat-ready forces, (2) amplifying the guardian spirit, and (3) partnering to win.

[37] Two weeks later, he unveiled the concept of Competitive Endurance as a theory of success for the Space Force, which has three core tenets: (1) avoiding operational surprise, (2) denying first-mover advantage, and (3) responsible counterspace campaigning.