USGIF Small Satellite Workshop - Unclassified Day

USGIF is hosting the Small Satellite Workshop as the opening event for this year’s GEOINT Community Week. 

Registration is now clowed.

The day-long agenda will include keynotes and panels from top leaders in government and industry as well as a number of displays, demonstrations, and learning opportunities from subject matter experts and industry innovators.

Advances in sensors, processing, communications, miniaturization, and manufacturing have fueled remarkable growth in the development of small satellites. Once the purview of universities and laboratories, small satellites are proving value to the commercial sector with some forecasts calling for hundreds of small satellites by the end of this decade. Meanwhile NASA, the military, and the Intelligence Community are examining smaller, low cost, and rapidly delivered satellites as a way to conduct both primary and supplementary missions in support of both national and tactical needs. NGA leadership sees the use of small satellites as a key aspect of the agency’s future.

Agenda

Agenda is tentative and subject to change

0800-0845 Registration Check-in and Conference Center Badging

0845-0900 NGA Security Briefing

0900-0915 Welcome: Keith J. Masback, CEO, USGIF

0915-1000 Opening Remarks: Robert Cardillo, Director, NGA

1000-1030 Keynote: Chirag Parikh, Director, Space Policy National Security Council, The White House

1030-1100 Networking Break & Industry Exhibits in the Atrium

1100-1200 Panel: The Burning Platform

• Moderator: Robert S. Zitz, Co-Chair, USGIF Small Satellite Working Group; and Senior Vice President & Chief Architect, National Security Sector, Leidos
• Jason Andrews, CEO, Spaceflight and President, BlackSky Global
• Robbie Schingler, Co-Founder, Planet Labs
• Maj. Gen. Roger W. Teague, Director, Space Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, U.S. Air Force
• Tom Webber, Director, Space and Strategic Systems Directorate, Army SMDC

1200-1315 Lunch Break & Industry Exhibits in the Atrium

1215-1300 Speaker’s Corner in Executive Reception Room

• Peter M. Wegner, Chief Technology Officer, BlackSky Global
• Chris Rasmussen, Unclassified GEOINT Pathfinder Program Manager and Public Open Source Software Development Lead, NGA
• Rob Hathaway, Corporate Development, Hera Systems

1315-1345 Keynote: Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Member, House Armed Services Committee; and Science, Space, and Technology Committee

1345-1445 Panel: Not Just Science Projects Anymore

• Moderator: JB Young, Co-Chair, USGIF Small Satellite Working Group; and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
• Dr. John Fenwick, Skybox Imaging Operations Manager, Google
• Paul Graziani, CEO, AGI
• Dr. Jim Wertz, USC Department of Astronautical Engineering; and President, Microcosm

1445-1515 Networking Break & Industry Exhibits in the Atrium

1515-1615 Panel: NGA & NRO Perspectives

• Moderator, Mark Choiniere, Office Director, InnoVision, NGA
• John Goolgasian, Director, Source, NGA
• Doug McGovern, Director, Information Technology, NGA
• Gary Dunow, Director, Analysis, NGA
• Robert Vanolst, Technical Executive, Operational Integration Office, NRO

1615-1645 Closing Remarks – John Charles, National Geospatial-Intelligence Officer for Commercial Imagery, Source Operations Group. NGA

1645-1800 Networking Reception and Industry Exhibits in the Atrium and Banneker Room