MilSat Symposium

Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems: Autonomy, Logistics, and On-Orbit Servicing

Looking at how the military is trying to change its orbital architecture from fragile, stationary targets into a dynamic, sustainable fleet. Here is a breakdown of the core concepts to be discussed. 1. Warfighter-Ready S

• Prof. Andy Kwas MODERATOR NG Fellow Northrop Grumman
• Dr. Robert Antypas Space Access, Mobility, and Logistics Mission Area Lead US Air Force Research Laboratory – AFRL
• Dr. David Denhard Chief Scientist & Technical Advisor US Air Force – Space Systems Command
• John Rood Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Momentus

Fireside Interview — Space Superiority and the Commercial Question

• Dara Panahy MODERATOR Partner Milbank LLP
• Col Timothy Trimailo Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO) Space Systems Command (SSC)

The Space Data Network: Backbone or Single Point of Failure?

The budget made the mesh decision; the fight now is execution and concentration. 2027 shifts transport from SDA’s Tranche 3 plans to an SDN backbone and instead funds a $1.6 billion Proliferated LEO SATCOM line identifie

• Preston Dunlap MODERATOR Founder and Managing Partner Arkenstone Capital
• Michael Geist SVP Strategy, Innovation & Growth SES Space & Defense
• Dr. Rajeev Gopal VP, Advanced Programs Defense Division Hughes Network Systems
• Dr. Lucy Hoag Founder and CEO Violet Labs
• John Malsbury CEO & Founder AnySignal
• Jim Scott Chief Strategy Officer US Electrodynamics

Buy What We Can vs. the Build-First Budget

• Chris Quilty MODERATOR CEO & President Quilty Space
• Justin Langlois Deputy Director, Commercial Systems Program Officer National Reconnaissance Office – NRO
• Rich Pang Principal Business Development Lead Amazon Leo Government
• Bob Pescatore General Manager/Vice President – Products Voyager
• Col Timothy Trimailo Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO) Space Systems Command (SSC)

NGA and NRO Future Purchases

The government’s mapping-intelligence agency explains what commercial imagery and analysis it plans to buy next.

Keynote

Golden Dome – Accelerating Industrial Capability on a 2028 Clock

Twelve companies won contracts to build missile interceptors in space. Can industry actually deliver by 2028.

• Phil Carrai MODERATOR President, Space, Training & Cyber Division Kratos Space, Training and Cybersecurity
• Dr. David Baughman VP, BD and Strategy Frontier Aerospace Corporation
• 👤 Mike Conschafter Director of Business Development, Spectral Solutions L3Harris
• 👤 Myland Pride Director, OPIR and Tactical Space Strategy and Customer Engagement Lockheed Martin
• John Trionfo CEO Aeonyx

CASR After FOC: Who Owns the Risk?

If a requisitioned commercial satellite is attacked, who carries the loss. Indemnification language remains publicly unresolved as the program crosses full operational capability,

• Lt. Col. Brandon Galindo CASR Division Chief at SSC Space Systems Command – US Space Force

Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield

Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom.

• Dr. Dr. James Crawford MODERATOR CSO Privateer Space
• Robert Cardillo Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board Planet Labs Federal
• Scot Currie Senior Vice President of US Government Engagement Blacksky
• Dr. Didi Kuo Principal Deputy Director, GEOINT National Reconnaissance Office

Tech Brief – Nuclear Power for Satellites

• Peter Cabauy Co-founder and CEO City Labs

Space Control as a Market: RG-XX, RPO, and the Limits of Commercial Combat Support

The military is hiring private companies to watch, refuel, and guard satellites.  It is is moving away from massive, static satellites and toward agile, commercially supported fleets that can actively maneuver in a conte

• Dr. Eric Anderson MODERATOR President And One Technologies
• COL(ret) Joe Guzman Founder and CEO Space Cowboy ADR
• Dr. Richard Nederlander Founder & CEO Spargo Space
• Courtney Sayles Chief Product Officer Scout Space

GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight

The Space Force office buying missile interceptors and surveillance satellites explains its sprint.

• Ahsun Murad MODERATOR Cofounder, President and CEO Optimal Satcom
• Brian Manning CEO & Co-Founder Xona Space Systems
• CMSgt Kevin Pfister Senior Enlisted Leader, Mission Delta 3 US Space Force
• Dr. Sumant Sharma Co-founder and CEO EraDrive, Inc.

CASR: State of the Reserve

An update on the new program that lets the military call up commercial satellites in a crisis, a civil reserve for space.

How Commercial Space Companies Can Support Future Defense Space Architectures with speed, flexibility, and affordability

The "future architecture" is heavily proliferated. This means relying on hundreds or thousands of smaller, cheaper, networked satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). If an adversary disables one, the rest of the network sea

• Janna Lewis MODERATOR Senior VP of Policy & General Counsel Astroscale U.S. Inc.
• Allyson Jenkins Vice President, Public Sector Pixxel
• Sho Nakanose Founder & CEO GITAI USA Inc.
• Dr. Robbie Robertson CEO & Co-founder Sedaro
• Karl Stedman CEO Pulse Space
• Brian Rishikof Co-Founder and CEO Odyssey Space Research, L.L.C.

The New Space Insurance Market

Who insures a satellite destined for National Security? A new market is forming around that question.

Hybrid Space Architecture: Commercial Integration in Practice

DIU’s program is the second commercial-integration thread after CASR and the practical one: multi-vendor, multi-orbit data transport actually under contract.

• 👤 Ava Norrell Member of Technical Staff – Space Systems Implementation Dept. The Aerospace Corporation