Symposium Offers Powerful General Session Speakers

The main stage at the Strategic Space Symposium – Nov. 2-4 at the Qwest Center Omaha – features an impressive line-up of space leaders.

Featured Speakers include (click on the name for more information on the speaker):

• Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell, USA, commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense
• Gen. Bruce Carlson, USAF (Retired), director, National Reconnaissance Office
• Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, USAF, commander, United States Strategic Command
• The Honorable Dave Heineman, Governor of the State of Nebraska
• Lt. Gen. Larry James, USAF, commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space
• Vice Adm. Carl V. Mauney, USN, deputy commander, United States Strategic Command (pictured)
• Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett, USN, director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Elliot Pulham, chief executive officer, Space Foundation

The Deputy Commander Panel (Joint Operations: Space as a Force Multiplier) includes:

• Vice Adm. Carl V. Mauney, USN, deputy commander, United States Strategic Command (moderator)
• Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, USA, deputy commander, United States Northern Command
• Lt. Gen. Francis H. Kearney, III, USA, deputy commander, United States Special Operations Command
• Lt. Gen. P. K. “Ken” Keen, USA, military deputy commander, United States Southern Command
• Maj. Gen. Harold W. “Punch” Moulton, II, USAF, director of operations, United States European Command

International Collaboration for the Future Panel includes:

• Air Cdre. Mark Roberts, Royal Air Force, United Kingdom (moderator)
• Brig. Gen. Yves Arnaud, commander, French Joint Space Command, French Ministry of Defense General Staff
• Maj. Gen. Stuart Beare, chief of force development, National Defence, Canada
• Air Cdre. Jan van Hoof, assistant director capabilities of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre at Kalkar, Germany
• Air Cdre. David Steele, air attache, Embassy of Australia, Australian Department of Defence  

 Industry Perspective Panel includes:

• Wanda Austin, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer, The Aerospace Corporation (moderator) 
• Rick Ambrose, general manager, Surveillance & Navigation, Lockheed Martin
• David M. DiCarlo, Ph.D., sector vice president and general manager, Space Systems Division, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
• William G. Hart, vice president and general manager, Space Systems, Space and Airborne Systems, Raytheon Company
• Brig. Gen. Robert T. “Tip” Osterthaler, USAF (Retired), president and chief executive officer, AMERICOM Government Services

View from the Front: Deployed Enlisted/Officer Space Operator Perspectives Panel includes:

• Brig. Gen. Michael J. Carey, USAF, deputy director, Global Operations, Global Operations Directorate, United States Strategic Command (moderator) 
• Col. John “J.R.” Riordan, USAF, director of Space Operations
• Col. William J. Spendley, USAF, Special Ops Command
• First Sergeant Dustin Swinney, USA, 2nd Space Company
   

 For more information on the Strategic Space Symposium, go to www.StrategicSpaceSymposium.org. 

This article is part of Space Watch: October 2009 (Volume: 8, Issue: 10).