Space Domain Awareness
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Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Gagnon:
Hey, good morning. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. You're already losing because you're probably
away from home. That's all I'm saying. Secretary Jones, thanks for joining us this morning and to all the
Guardians and Airmen who took the time out this morning to choose this panel, we say thank you.
We're going to talk about space domain awareness. If we could bring up the slide, that'd be helpful.
These are a set of documents that are inside the Department of Defense. They've all been updated or
they're brand new. Today, we're talking about space domain awareness, the ability to do surveillance
and reconnaissance of space for space, to inform the seven joint functions, right, the seven joint
functions. We need to inform maneuver, protection, fires.
We need to inform information for commanders that might be friendly force information requirements,
and we need to satisfy priority intelligence requirements of those commanders as well. Yesterday and
the day prior, we had panels on space order of battle. Notice we didn't call it catalog. The language is
different. The purpose is different, which is why you have a United States Space Force, because if our
sole function was combat support, we'd be a combat support agency. We're not. We're a military
service. I am very grateful for our industry partners that have chosen to join us here on stage. I'm going
to do a short introduction of each one.
Then, they'll talk about their main business lines. Then, we've crafted some questions that we'll work
through in the next 37 minutes. First on stage, we have both old and large, and new and small, and we
start with new and small, and we start with Bryon down the end. Bryon used to be in uniform as an
Airman. He's a cyber security specialist. He's also highly involved in Kessel Run. He was one of the
original starters of Kessel Run in the Air Force. Now, because he had all that great Airmanship and
training, he started his own company and that's called Rise8. He'll be our key speaker this morning that
not just talks about how you orchestrate your data, how you curate your data, and how you use your
data, but for all of our defense industrial base here, how you protect your data.
Because the only thing that makes me sad on Valentine's Day is when your intellectual property helps
inform the space systems division of the PLA. They are coming for your data. In fact, they have taken
some of your data. You may have heard about that on the previous panel. Next, Pablo. Pablo comes
from one of our primes and he represents Northrop Grumman. He's been there a while. He's done a
number of different things with Northrop Grumman, who is a key partner of the United States Space
Force and the Department of Defense in all parts of space, both ground, both in the orbit and in the link.
Then, finally, the good doctor, Dr. Parker is from Boeing. She's been with Boeing for some time.
Many, many, many of the satellites we operate in space today have her fingerprints on them, either
from the factory, or from the project, or from the final delivery. Ma'am, pleasure to have you here this
morning. If I could, let's start with Bryon, just give us a little bit of overview of what your daily portfolio
looks like. We'll work down and then we'll start the questions.
Bryon Kroger:
Thank you. Yeah. At Rise8 we do custom software development for critical missions and we help war
fighters achieve continuous delivery. If you're familiar, there's a State of DevOps report that comes out
every single year and it benchmarks organizations from a software delivery performance perspective.
There are four categories, one of which is elite. We often say that we provide elite software
development. What does that really mean? It means that we get to the point where from a software
