Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Monday, July 23, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NASA’s founding with Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Hear the Administrator’s vision for the agency’s future while honoring its decades-long history. The Administrator’s address will be followed by a panel discussion featuring two of his predecessors: Sean O’Keefe and Charlie Bolden.
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Aerospace Security events feature experts from academia and think tanks, the aerospace industry, the federal government, and the aerospace policy community at large discussing issues in the air and space domains.The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. hosts thousands of events each year, including on-the-record conferences, press briefings, and roundtables.
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Assessing Threats to Space Systems
Space is simultaneously a powerful enabler for the United States and a critical vulnerability. U.S. national security space systems are vulnerable to a wide range of threats, ranging from cyberattacks and jamming to direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles. CSIS’ Space Threat Assessment 2018 and the Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities provide assessments of the open-source […]
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34th Space Symposium
The Space Foundation
The Space Symposium has become widely known as the premier U.S. space policy and program forum and as the “must attend” opportunity for information on and interaction among all sectors of space.
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The Quest to Colonize the Cosmos: How Billionaires are Changing the Space Industry
Join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project and author Chris Davenport as we discuss the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier.
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Space Warfighting Readiness: Policies, Authorities, and Capabilities
House Armed Services Committee
Watch program director Todd Harrison testify before the House Armed Services Committee on emerging space threats.
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Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum
This conference, in collaboration with the CSIS Defense Budget Analysis Project, will address the dynamic national security space landscape including the release of the Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget, the evolving threat environment, and changes in the organization of the national security space enterprise.
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Scanning the Horizon for 2018: What’s Next in Cyber and Space?
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Military and commercial developments in both cyberspace and outer space are posing new foreign policy challenges. The event’s presenters will highlight potentially destabilizing trends and assess their likely impact on the future of international peace and security.
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En Route to the Moon: Creating a More Resilient Civil Space Architecture
The Trump Administration has emphasized civil and commercial space as one of its top priorities with the reinstatement of the National Space Council, the signing of Space Policy Directive 1, and the recent National Security Strategy, which prioritized the improvement of our U.S. space architecture resiliency. This conference will focus on how NASA and others can promptly adapt civil space architectures in pursuit of the Administration’s mission objectives.
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Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
The Policy Studies Organization
The purpose of the Dupont Summit is to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about pressing issues related to science, technology and the environment. The conference mirrors the interest of the PSO and its partners in promoting conversation about current policy concerns.
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West Coast Aerospace Forum: Air and Space Power in a Multi-Domain World
The RAND Corporation
Successful military operations in the modern age rely on the ability to effectively harness multi-domain capabilities, with information serving as the key lynchpin to put the right assets in place at the proper time to best achieve desired effects. This presents a new paradigm for the Department of Defense, one in which information stands as a co-equal to traditional elements of hardware—things like planes, ships, tanks, and satellites.