2024 ASCEND Day 2: MICRO 18 Move Fast & Build Things: Accelerating Resilient Space Industrial...

While the U.S. and other nations have recently grappled with the challenge of maintaining supply chain resiliency in space and several other critical infrastructural areas, too little discussion has centered on how the nation might scale up space manufacturing in the face of existential or serious threats. This panel explores how rarely leveraged portions of the Defense Production Act could enable nation-scale mobilization of the space industry in times of critical national need.
Panelists:
Brian Bone, Principal Director, Commercial Space Futures Office, The Aerospace Corporation
Uyen Dinh, Vice President, Government Relations and Strategy, BlackSky
Mike Patton, Vice President, Product Center, Lockheed Martin Space
Melanie Preisser, Executive Vice President / General Manager, York Space Systems
Karla Smith Jackson, Senior Procurement Executive, Deputy Chief Acquisition Officer, and Assistant Administrator for Procurement, NASA
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