Eric Brown is the senior director of Mission Strategy for Lockheed Martin Space’s Military Space business. In this role, Mr. Brown works with the U.S. Government and its allies developing space solutions with a focus on the following mission areas: missile warning and defense, military satellite communications (MILSATCOM), position, navigation and timing (PNT), space control, space domain awareness, and tactical missions. Mr. Brown leads Lockheed Martin’s efforts to combine the company’s investments in future capabilities with those of teammates in industry, academia, research labs, and the U.S. Government to establish new architectures responsive to emerging threats to space and missions. Based on the criticality of space to today’s global security, Mr. Brown coordinates across Lockheed Martin’s complete portfolio, which includes fighter aircraft, missiles, and mission systems, to architect the infrastructure needed to enable Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO). As part of this work, he leads Lockheed Martin Innovation Partners, the company’s initiative to engage, accelerate, and onboard non-traditional companies and partners to programs of record.

Jacob leads KPMG’s Global and Australian Space Industry practice and is an Associate Director within KPMG’s Management Consulting practice in Australia. Jacob has worked with a range of clients in the space sector across government, defense and industry in regions including Australia, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and the United States. Jacob has led the development of a number of national space strategies and policies, worked with industry and government clients to export to new markets and provide economic and market analysis and delivered programs with defense clients.

Mandy Vaughn is the CEO and Founder of GXO inc. Prior to founding GXO in 2021, Mandy was the President of VOX Space, having originally joined Virgin Orbit, VOX Space’s parent company, in 2015. As Senior Director of Business Development and Mission Management, she supported business development on the LauncherOne program for both government and commercial customers, and served as mission manager for customers including OneWeb and NASA, in addition to spearheading the creation and registration of VOX Space.

The Honorable Steven J. Isakowitz is president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the nation’s national security and civil space programs.

Joel Graham is a Professional Staff Member for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS). In this role, he focuses on civil and commercial space policy, including U.S. space leadership, regulation, and oversight of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In his role at the Committee, Joel has worked on several space-related legislative initiatives, including the bipartisan Senate NASA Authorization Acts of 2019 and 2020, SPACE Act of 2020, NASA Enhanced-use Leasing Extension Acts, and space-related provisions of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.

Dr. Bruce Danly was selected as the Director of Research for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in December 2016, and has been in various roles at NRL since 1995.

Kelly Garehime is Sierra Space’s VP, General Counsel, Chief Ethics Officer, and Corporate Secretary, heading all of the company’s global legal affairs. Ms. Garehime is a vastly experienced leader. Her focus at Sierra Space, in addition to leading the company’s in-house legal team, is on providing Board and Executive level counseling related to commercial space…

James Free was selected as the associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sept. 20, 2021. At the time of Free’s appointment, NASA also announced the directorate leading all the agency’s human spaceflight operations would separate into two areas. Free will lead a new directorate…

Alex MacDonald is the Chief Economist at NASA. In this capacity, he has worked on developing the Artemis Program and NASA’s strategy for Commercial Low-Earth Orbit activities, including serving as the program executive for the ISS National Lab. He has server at NASA in a variety of capacities for over a decade, including roles at…

Brent Sherwood is the Senior Vice President, Advanced Development Programs for Blue Origin, a private space company building the foundation for millions of people to live and work in space to benefit Earth. He is accountable for the development of reusable systems in four program areas: Space Transportation, Space Mobility, Space Destination, and Lunar Permanence.…