The U.S. Department of Defense continues to be the single largest investor in satellite technology. Constellations’ interviews with DoD leaders have focused on the needs and capabilities that are defining industry partnerships as well as the future of all- domain warfare.
Here are the top Constellations podcasts featuring guests from the armed forces.
Major General Shawn
Bratton
Major General Shawn Bratton
STARCOM
Training and educating the United States Space Force (USSF)
Guardians of tomorrow is the biggest challenge facing Commander of the Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton.
Speaking to Constellations on the one-year anniversary of STARCOM, Bratton discussed how the USSF is combining new technologies, simulators and live drills to train “for competition and conflict in the space domain.”
Dr. Frank Turner
Accelerating Space Acquisition
Dr. Frank Turner
Space Development Agency
The Space Development Agency’s (SDA) role in constructively disrupting the acquisitions process has been an important change for the Department of Defense (DoD).
SDA Technical Director Dr. Frank Turner addressed the agency’s push to accelerate the process with a two-year spiral development approach currently being used to fast-track the development of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) transport layer.
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Dr. Lisa Costa
Building the First Digital Service
Dr. Lisa Costa
CTIO U.S. Space Force
USSF is the first service to be born in the digital age. Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Dr. Lisa Costa spoke to Constellations about what is involved in making the first digital service.
Costa addressed the strategy to support the joint forces with cutting-edge space technology, from engineering and operations, to leveraging the skills of an IT-fluent, STEM- educated class of Guardians.
Major General Brook
Leonard
Major General Brook J. Leonard
Chief of Staff, U.S. Space Command
Major General Brook Leonard is responsible for coordinating decision-making among staff in the warfighting component of USSF. Brook described SPACECOM’s focus on outmaneuvering adversaries through superior technology innovation, thinking and force organization. Rather than an incremental evolution, Brook emphasized “revolutionary jumps in innovation.”
Colonel Eric Felt
Colonel Eric Felt
Past Director of the Air Force Research Lab(AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate
Colonel Felt described his organization’s work as the “big idea pipeline” for national defense space.
Felt, who now serves as executive director of the Space Force’s Architecture, Science and Technology Directorate, discussed developments in cislunar operations, W and V-band communications and proliferated LEO as a game- changing capability for the warfighter.
Lt. Gen. John Shaw
Lieutenant General John Shaw
U.S. Space Command
The “sun never sets on space operations,” according to Deputy Commander of U.S. Space Command, Lt. Gen. John Shaw who spoke to Constellations about the role of USSF in projecting strength to deter conflict in space. Shaw was with USSF from its inception and addressed how the perception of space has shifted from a benign area of operations to a warfighting domain.
