Systems Engineer – Space Operations Analyst, Boeing Space Virtual Warfare Center
Jordyn Tucker is a Systems Engineer and Space Operations Analyst at the Boeing Space Virtual Warfare Center, where she leads high-stakes space architecture analysis and wargaming for U.S. national security missions. Her work focuses on assessing how space architectures perform under threat, adversary action, and degraded conditions, providing decision-makers with data-driven recommendations for operating in contested environments. Still early in her career, Jordyn has become a trusted analyst for some of the most strategically significant space studies supporting the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Combatant Commands.
At Boeing, Jordyn specializes in contested analysis of National Security Space architectures, applying advanced modeling and simulation to evaluate resilience, survivability, and operational effectiveness. She is a recognized expert in space wargaming, a critical tool used to stress-test architectures, refine concepts of operations, and train elite space operators before real-world deployment. Her expertise spans both ground-based and on-orbit space threats, including jamming, directed energy, proximity operations, rendezvous and servicing risks, and kinetic interception, allowing her to bring informed judgment to assessments of adversary capabilities and countermeasures.
Her most significant accomplishment to date has been leading a year-long, multi-site team effort supporting the Space Development Agency’s Fire-Control-On-Orbit Support to the Warfighter (FOO Fighter) program. Under her leadership, a ten-person team developed refined architecture and operations recommendations for a missile warning and missile tracking constellation designed to support precision targeting in contested environments. The team’s work resulted in design optimization recommendations delivered directly to two U.S. Combatant Commands and the U.S. Space Force, addressing satellite quantities, orbital configurations, and operational approaches needed to meet mission objectives. The resulting simulations are now used not only for analysis, but also to visually communicate how the architecture supports warfighter kill chains.
Jordyn has also played a central role in Boeing’s Space Weapons School activities, which provide advanced operator-in-the-loop training for U.S. Space Force Guardians. Serving as lead for the Red Cell, she designed and executed realistic adversary scenarios informed by Space Force aggressor expertise, stressing operator decision-making through plausible on-orbit and cyber-attack conditions. In parallel, she was a lead analyst on an 18-month study optimizing the design and concepts of operations for the Space Force’s Evolved Strategic SATCOM system, balancing cost, performance, and resilience for one of the nation’s most critical communications architectures.
