Before I get too scared...

I am 98% sure the star is in about the right place to be the North Star, and is depicted as compass rose, thus symbolism of navigation and wayfinding. Which makes sense as THE most critical system Space Force is in control of is the GPS network. The head is looking upto as humans for all of time have looked to the North Star to guide their way.

I am totally lost as to why they are picking a Pharaoh head. I mean the only thing that is coming to me is is a strange cross of the Star Trek chevron and Egypt via Stargate, but I don't think the military is quite banal enough to copy pop-media when making a logo for entire corp.

Seriously anybody got anything on why Egyptian kings?

Edit: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/22/2003021948/-1/-1/1/DELTA%2018%20FACTSHEET%20-%20220621.PDF Found it...

The depict the Sphinx, the mythological master of mysteries and riddles, to depict how they are capable of solving the unsolvable and getting all the best intelligence for the USM. After all Delta 18 is an intelligence unit.

Honestly IMO, I don't see anything to get too excited over here. While there is tons of information in symbols, particularly with military unit symbols one shouldn't look too deeply. Normally the people who make the symbols pick them on a whim to have something. Like the famous Grim Reapers flight squadron because they kill the enemy, or the Calvary using bulls because "charge."

They have a sphinx because they solve riddles and reveal secrets, they ARE intelligence after all. They have the North Star because Polaris is the symbol of Space force. Their mascot is shown over the world because they are clearly SATELLITE intelligence.