, presents the 14th Air Force guidon to Shaw, during a change of commander ceremony, 2019. After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, Shaw was commissioned into the
United States Air Force on May 30, 1990. For a year, he studied at the University of Washington. From June 2015 to June 2017, he was assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command as the deputy director for global operations. After that, he was reassigned to the
Air Force Space Command first as the director of strategic plans, programs, requirements, and analysis from 2017 to 2018 and then as deputy commander of the major command from 2018 to 2019 after he was promoted to
major general. On December 20, 2019, with the establishment of the
United States Space Force, the Fourteenth Air Force was temporarily redesignated as the
Space Operations Command. On October 21, 2020, the Space Operations Command in
Vandenberg Air Force Base was inactivated prior to the activation of a separate Space Operations Command, a new
field command for which Shaw became the deputy commander. On September 30, 2020, Shaw was nominated for transfer to the Space Force, promotion to
lieutenant general, and assignment as
deputy commander of the United States Space Command. He relinquished command of the Combined Force Space Component Command on November 16, 2020, to Major General
DeAnna Burt. He was promoted and transferred to the Space Force on November 23, 2020, in a ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy and took on duties as deputy commander of U.S. Space Command the next day. 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. Shaw held his retirement ceremony on September 8, 2023. His official retirement was on November 1, 2023. ==Civilian career==