Colonel Scott Smith is the Chief of Staff of 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. COL Smith previously served as the Commandant of the Defense Nuclear Weapons School, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico from July 2023-June 2024. He served as the United States Strategic Command (USTRATCOM) Executive Officer to the Deputy Commander and as Chief Ballistic Missile Nuclear Weapons J87 from 2019-2022. Additionally, COL Smith has served as the Deputy Federal Program Manager and Executive Officer for the W88 Alteration 370 Nuclear Weapon Modernization Program at the National Nuclear Security Administration from 2015-2019.
Throughout his career, COL Smith has served in a variety of assignments located in the United States, South Korea, Iraq, and Pakistan. Most notably he served as an Intelligence Test and Evaluation Officer at the National Assessment Group, where he served in a selectively manned OSD organization conducting quick reaction worldwide assessments for DoD and interagency customers; Division Collection Manager for 2ID, Camp Red Cloud, South Korea; commanded an MI Company at Buckley AFB, Colorado for the 743rd MI BN; served in Iraq on both a MiTT and BTT conducting FID missions in Eastern Iraq along the Iranian border; served as a missile maintenance officer for both Peacekeeper and MMIII ICBMs and MASO at F.E. Warren AFB; and served in Pakistan with Predator MQ-1 UAVs in support of OEF.
COL Smith graduated from the Texas A&M University in 2000 and then then was commissioned in 2001 after graduating from Officer Training School. He earned a Master’s degree in 2005 from Boston University and the US Army War College in 2023.