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Space Security: Issues for New Admin (CSIS), Mar 2017, DC
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UPDATED March 19 with additional speakers.
The Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), will hold a conference on March 22, 2017 on “Space Security: Issues for the New U.S. Administration.” The conference is at CSIS’s offices, 1616 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC from 8:30 am – 4:45 pm ET. This is the fourth in an annual series of conferences.
Details are on the CSIS website. The event will be livestreamed.
The list of 24 confirmed speakers includes experts from —
- PSSI and CSIS — John Hamre; Roger Robinson, Jr.; Jana Robinson; Thomas Karako; Todd Harrison; Andrew Hunter; and Zack Cooper
- U.S. military –U.S. Strategic Command (former commander Gen. Robert Kehler, Ret., and current Deputy Commander Vice Adm. Charles Richard) and Missile Defense Command (Deputy Director Rear Adm. John Hill)
- Congress — Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK)
- Academia — George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute (Scott Pace and Pete Hays) and Hokkaido University, Japan (Kazuto Suzuki)
- Foreign governments/agencies — Japanese Embassy Political Counselor Shuji Maeda, French Embassy Air Ataché Col. Gérard Laborie, and the European Space Agency’s Claes Hansen
- Non-profit — Secure World Foundation (Victoria Samson and Brian Weeden)
- FFRDCs — IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (Bhayva Lal) and MITRE (William LaPlante) and
- U.S. industry — Blue Origin (Brett Alexander), Analytical Graphics (Travis Langster), Aerojet Rocketdyne (John Schumacher)