MilSat Symposium

How to Obtain CMMC 2.0 Compliance on Any Hardware

This session will explore how organizations can work toward CMMC 2.0 compliance across a wide range of hardware platforms. We’ll discuss how wolfSSL’s portable security solutions can help address key requirements through

Space Prep: Solving the Payload Processing Bottleneck at America’s Spaceports

Briefing on the current and future development plans for Spacecraft Processing at US Spaceports. The presenter will brief current activities as well as near term capabilities coming online.

Keynote On the Space Development Agency

• Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo MWT PAE & Directors Space Development Agency

Interview on the Defense Innovation Unit

• Maj. Gen. Steven(Bucky) Butow Senior Advisor to the Director Defense Innovation Unit
• Craig Miller MODERATOR President, Viasat Government Viasat

The Trifecta: Reducing Cost, Schedule, and Risk in Mission Software

Flight software issues are among the leading — and costliest — sources of in-space anomalies. Standard development approaches often reinvent the wheel, duplicate effort, and repeat mistakes. With industry and national ur

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
• Jeff Chiow Chair, Government Contracts Greenberg Traurig LLP
• Erik Daehler SVP of Defense Technology Sierra Space
• Dr. David Denhard Chief Scientist U.S. Space Command
• John Rood Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Momentus

Fireside Interview — Space Superiority and the Commercial Question

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

Adaptive RF Wavefront Shaping: Real-Time Digital Beamforming for Contested Spectrum

Conventional phased arrays steer beams with analog phase shifters and fixed weighting, which limits how quickly and precisely they can respond to a changing RF environment. This session looks at a different approach: ful

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 Hughes Defense Hughes Network Systems
• Dr. Lucy Hoag Founder and CEO Violet Labs
• John Malsbury CEO & Founder AnySignal
• Jim Scott Chief Strategy Officer US Electrodynamics

Frontier Aerospace: How a small company achieves high-performance hypergolic bipropellant engines for any and all missions

High-performance hypergolic propulsion has traditionally been associated with large aerospace primes, but advances in engineering, manufacturing, and test infrastructure are enabling small companies to deliver mission-re

Buy What We Can vs. the Build-First Budget

• Chris Quilty MODERATOR CEO & President Quilty Space
• Patrick Butler Chief Operating Officer Sidus Space
• Mr. Justin Langlois Deputy Director, Commercial Systems Program office National Reconnaissance Office
• Rich Pang Principal Business Development Lead Amazon Leo Government
• Bob Pescatore Vice President & General Manager, Voyager Products Voyager Technologies
• Col Timothy Trimailo Director, Commercial Space Office (COMSO) Space Systems Command (SSC)

Beyond the Horizon: A Fireside Chat on Space Access 

• Brig. Gen. Eric Zarybnisky Acting Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Space Access Space Force
• Robert Hauge MODERATOR President, Space Logistics Northrop Grumman

Interview – Managing a Major Acquisition Category

• Katherine Coens Senior Materiel Leader (SML) Space Systems Command — Narrowband SATCOM (SYD 88/NX)
• Maj. Gen. (ret) Kimberly Crider MODERATOR Founding Partner ElaraNova

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
• Ian Eishen SVP of Government Aalyria Technologies
• Myland Pride Director, MWTD Strategy and Advanced Capabilities Lockheed Martin
• John Rood Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO Momentus
• John Trionfo CEO Aeonyx

Spectrum Superiority: Securing Communications in Contested RF Environments

Spectrum superiority has become a critical requirement for maintaining resilient and secure communications in contested environments. This presentation will explore how advanced spectrum monitoring, AI-driven signal char

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 Div Chief SSC COMSO (USSF)

Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield

Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom. Whether AI-derived commercial intelligence survives contact with lawyers, analysts, and commanders is the GEOINT question

• Dr. James Crawford MODERATOR CSO Privateer Space
• Dr. Eduardo Bendek Senior Optical Scientist NASA Ames Research Center / SETI
• Robert Cardillo Chairman of the Board & Chief Strategist Planet Federal
• Scot Currie Senior Vice President of US Government Engagement Blacksky
• Matt Jenkins Chief Space Systems Officer Vantor
• Dr. Didi Kuo Principal Deputy Director, GEOINT National Reconnaissance Office

Sunshade® Thermal Control Material for Space Systems

Keeping spacecraft hardware within its operating temperature range starts with controlling how surfaces absorb and reject solar energy. In this session, Lockheed Martin Deposition Sciences (DSI) introduces its Sunshade®

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
• Gregg Burgess President Orion Space Solutions
• Col. (ret) Joe Guzman Founder and CEO Space Cowboy ADR
• Dr. Richard Nederlander Founder & CEO Spargo Space
• Courtney Sayles Chief Product Officer Scout Space
• Col. Owen Stephens Director of Contracting for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO) Space Force

Predict Before Failure: Onboard Environmental Intelligence for Resilient Space Systems

Modern spacecraft generate complex, multivariate telemetry that can reveal emerging anomalies and threats long before conventional threshold based systems recognize a problem. This presentation introduces advanced nonlin

Mission Virtualization: Optimizing What You Have. Integrating What Comes Next.

As military space operations become increasingly complex, validating a single spacecraft is no longer enough. Mission success depends on understanding how satellites, sensors, communications, command and control, and ope

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

GPS is being jammed and faked around the world. The jamming and spoofing epidemic has only widened and protected-satcom money is moving.  

• Ahsun Murad MODERATOR Cofounder, President and CEO Optimal Satcom
• Jeffrey Janicik Chairman / Founder Innoflight
• 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.

Closing the US Military’s Top Weather Mission Gaps with Proliferated Commercial Imaging Data

The military’s top two weather mission gaps, Cloud Characterization and Theater Weather Imagery, will be closed with Orion’s SPECTRE instrument flying on Tomorrow.io’s Deep Sky constellation. SPECTRE will deliver critica

The New Space Insurance Market

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

• Tim Rush Sr. Partner, Global Space Practice Gallagher

Attack at Machine Speed: Cyber, AI, and the Counterspace Threat

AI has become integral to satellite operations, enabling networks to respond faster, optimise resources and manage increasing operational complexity. This session explores how AI is being applied across satellite network

• Dr. Paul Struhsaker MODERATOR CEO Arrasar Partners
• Chris Badgett Vice President, Technology Kratos
• David Gelerman President & CEO SpaceBridge Inc.
• Jeremy Hallett Co-Founder & Executive Director Brindabella & Company
• Brendan Harris Director, ISR & Warfighting Data Solutions Dell Technologies Federal
• Sanket Kamble Co-founder, CTO OrbitSec
• Lt. Col. Vinny Pande Materiel Leader & Deputy Director SpaceWERX – US Space Force
• Col. Jon Strizzi Director of the Space Systems Integration Office US Space Force

Electronic Warfare

Mission Microwave presents its solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) and electronic warfare (EW) capabilities, along with the capabilities it has in development.

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 General Counsel Rocketdyne
• 👤 Kateri Garcia Principal Deputy for CSPO National Reconnaissance Office – NRO – GEOINT Directorate
• 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.

Hybrid Space Architecture: Commercial Integration in Practice

Commercial integration from the start: hybrid architectures from the design process through system implementation and deployment

• Ava Norrell Member of the Technical Staff The Aerospace Corporation