Damon Coletta is the 2020-2021 Scowcroft Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy and associate director of the department's Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies. Damon edits the center's peer-reviewed e-journal, Space & Defense (2012-2021) and serves as social sciences liaison to USAFA's nationally recognized nuclear minor program. He completed a book on science & technology policy and international security, Courting Science: Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century (Stanford, 2016), and coedited NATO's Return to Europe (Georgetown, 2017). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University, a master in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a master in electrical engineering from Stanford University.