Peter L. Hays is a policy analyst supporting the planning integration division of the National Security Space Office. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel and served 25 years in the Air Force. Previous positions include: Executive Editor of Joint Force Quarterly, Professor at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies (SAAS), Associate Professor of Political Science and division chief for the International Relations and Defense Policy curriculum, and Director of the USAF Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He holds Ph.D. and M.A.L.D. degrees in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and an M.A. in defense and strategic studies from the University of Southern California. A 1979 honor graduate of the USAF Academy, Hays was a command pilot with over 3,200 hours of flying time, primarily in the C-141 Starlifter. He has focused his studies and research on U.S. national security space policy by developing space policy courses at the Air Force Academy, SAAS, National Defense University, and George Washington University; serving as a research assistant at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at the National Space Council; and writing a dissertation on U.S. military space doctrine. Hays is author of United States Military Space (2002), and is a contributing coeditor of Space Power for a New Millennium (2000), Countering the Proliferation and Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998) and for the seventh edition of American Defense Policy (1997).