Commercial Space Integration
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Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, USAF (Ret.):
Well, good morning everybody. It's great to be here. Thank you all for coming to what we anticipate is
going to be a great discussion with regard to commercial space, commercial space integration, the
challenges and opportunities that we face. And as you start to think about great power competition, it's
important that I think we collectively look and examine all of our national capabilities and what we
might be able to collectively bring to the fight. And commercial space is no exception. It has a lot of
capabilities that it's ready to offer today. Our job, our collective job is to figure out how to do that and
how to do it effectively and efficiently. I'm pleased to be joined by our fellow panelists that I'll introduce
in a moment, but I wanted to first offer a couple of points that might help shape the conversation. First
is the rapidly changing landscape.
It's no secret. Obviously commercial space market has grown exponentially over the last couple of
decades, and it really influences how we think about space and about what the future is going to look
like. It's no longer a province for sovereign governments alone. We really have to think about how we're
going to interact with commercial systems and capabilities. But most importantly and what this panel is
going to discuss is how we can leverage those space capabilities. And then that really leads me to point
number two, and that is really the opportunity that we see for collaboration and synergy. And it's very,
very important that we start to think about how we can best collaborate and leverage and create
synergistic effects through both government purpose systems as well as the commercial capabilities that
might be able to brought to the bear, where ultimately those systems can be fielded in a manner that
helps complement, augment, and supplement and ultimately enhance resiliency across all of our space
systems.
Finally, there's a little bit of a discussion and an idea with regard to the role that innovation will play.
Commercial capabilities can offer a tremendous amount of innovative power. They work at a completely
different time and scale and speed and bring tremendous capability very, very rapidly through rapid
refresh and technology cycles. But it's important and it has to be balanced by the challenges of those
opportunities and that the integration of it can sometimes be challenging, whether or not you're talking
security, cyber hardening, ultimately systems integration, all of these represent challenges that must be
overcome if we're going to be able to integrate commercial systems effectively.
So with that, let's get into it. First I'd like to introduce our panelists. To my left is Colonel Richard
Kniseley. Rich is the director of the Commercial Space Systems Office at Los Angeles Air Force Base
Space Systems Center. Becky Cudzilo, she is the senior engineering fellow at Astroscale. To my right is
Dr. John Springmann, who's a senior vice president at Tomorrow.io. And finally, Mr. Dan Jablonsky,
former CEO and president and current board member of Maxar Technologies. Panelists, welcome. With
that, Rich, could you kind of get us started with your opening remarks please?
Col. Richard A. Kniseley:
Absolutely...
Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, USAF (Ret.):
You're good.
