National Security Space Policy and Architecture Symposium

The annual National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) National Security Space Architecture and Policy Symposium will be held this year on the 29th and 30th of June at the TASC Heritage Conference Center in Chantilly, VA.   This year’s symposium will focus on looking forward for national security space (NSS) with discussion of acquisition process and technology enablers and how they will shape the architectural and policy landscape.  The forum will also review the way ahead for U. S. space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs.  This will be complimented with stand alone presentations providing updates on the Department of Defense and National Reconnaissance Office space programs, space situational awareness and protection, the Air Force way ahead organizationally in space,  the state of NSS launch, and international space-based ISR. 

Featured speakers include the Honorable Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force; General (ret) Bruce Carlson, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office; Mr. Gil Klinger, Director of the Space and Intelligence Office in USD (AT&L); Mr. Richard W. McKinney, Special Assistant to the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force; and Ms. Karyn Hayes-Ryan, Director of Commercial Imagery, Data and Programs Group, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Because of the nature of the topics, the Symposium will be conducted exclusively at the SCI level and NOFORN on both days.