John Edwin Shaw (born March 17, 1968) is a retired United States Space Force lieutenant general who last served as the deputy commander of the United States Space Command from 2020 to 2023.

[3] Raised in Norton, Massachusetts, he is a distinguished graduate from the United States Air Force Academy in 1990 with a B.S.

degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington in 1991 with a thesis entitled Optimal Control Designs for an Inverted Cart-Pendulum Array.

degrees in 1998 and 2004: one in organizational management from George Washington University and one in military operational arts and sciences from Air Command and Staff College, respectively.

He was then deployed for two months to Naples, Italy where he was chief of special technical operations for Joint Task Force Noble Anvil during the Kosovo War.

After that, he was assigned as the executive officer for director of aerospace operations of the United States Air Forces in Europe.

[5] In 2001, Shaw became a field grade officer, having been promoted to major, and was reassigned to the Air Force headquarters as the deputy chief of the strategy branch in the Directorate for Space Operations and Integration.

For a year after that, he was a speechwriter for the secretary of the Air Force and chief of staff, assigned to their executive action group.

From 2004 to 2005, he served as the first operations officer for the newly activated 25th Space Control Tactics Squadron.

After his first command duty, he spent a year as a student at the National War College where he completed an M.S.

[17] On October 5, 2023, he relinquished his position as deputy commander after he extension caused by Senator Tommy Tuberville's hold on his successor's nomination.