Top Defense Speakers Featured at 32nd Space Symposium

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 3, 2016) – The Space Foundation announces three of the nation’s top defense leaders who will speak at the 32nd Space Symposium:

• The Honorable Robert O. Work, Deputy Secretary of Defense
• The Honorable Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force
• ADM Cecil D. Haney, USN, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)

Mr. Work and ADM Haney will be speaking at the Space Symposium for the first time. Ms. James will be the featured speaker for the Symposium’s Corporate Partnership Dinner on Tuesday, April 12. See information about attending the dinner at www.spacesymposium.org.

The 32nd Space Symposium is slated for April 11-14 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo. Widely known as the most significant global space industry conference, the Space Symposium annually attracts thousands of participants from dozens of countries, including the world’s leading decision makers from civil, military, government, commercial and academic institutions.

The program will include classified tracks, discussion of emergent space technology, international space panels and New Generation Space Leader activities. There will be more than 160 displays of the world’s latest space technology, products and services in the Symposium’s Lockheed Martin Exhibit Center and Pavilion.

See all of the confirmed speakers for the 32nd Space Symposium, plus the agenda and registration information, at www.SpaceSymposium.org.

Co-sponsors
a.i. solutions; Aerojet Rocketdyne; Aerus; AGI; Arianespace, Inc.; ASRC Federal; BAE Systems; Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.; Boeing; Booz Allen Hamilton; Colorado Space Coalition; El Pomar Foundation; FLUOR; General Dynamics; Harris; Holland & Hart; Inmarsat; Intelsat General Corporation; Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.; Northrop Grumman; Raytheon; SAIC; Secure World Foundation; SES Government Solutions; SpaceX; Stellar Solutions; United Launch Alliance (ULA). Aviation Week Network and Space News are official media partners.

About the Space Foundation
Founded in 1983, the Space Foundation is the foremost advocate for all sectors of space, and is a global, nonprofit leader in space awareness activities, educational programs and major industry events, including the annual Space Symposium, in support of its mission “to advance space-related endeavors to inspire, enable and propel humanity.” Space Foundation World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA, has a public Discovery Center, including El Pomar Space Gallery, Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere® and the Lockheed Martin Space Education Center. The Space Foundation has a field office in Houston and conducts government affairs from its Washington, D.C., office. It publishes The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity, and through its Space Certification^TM and Space Technology Hall of Fame® programs, the Space Foundation recognizes space-based innovations that have been adapted to improve life on Earth.  Visit www.SpaceFoundation.org, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, Flickr and YouTube, and read our e-newsletter Space Watch.