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WELCOME TO SSIB 2024 MAIN CONFERENCE

28 – 31 May

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2024 STATE OF THE SPACE INDUSTRIAL BASE – MAIN CONFERENCE

        Sheraton Albuquerque Airport

Event Agenda

  • 12pm – 5pm    Check In and Exhibitor Hall Open
  • 2pm – 5pm       Pre-Conference Event: Space Company Pitch and Customer Networking
      • Host: Dr. Andy Williams, Deputy TEO for Space, AFRL
  • 5pm – 7pm       Opening Reception, Exhibitor’s Hall
  • 7am – 5pm                     Check In and Exhibitor Hall Open
  • 8am – 9am                     Breakfast
  • 9am – 12pm                  Plenary Session
      • Welcome: NewSpace Nexus, Casey Anglada DeRaad
      • Keynotes: Diane Howard, National Space Council
      • Dr. Derek Tournear, SDA
      • Col. Jeremy Raley, AFRL
      • Col. Rich Kniseley, SSC-COSMO
  • 12pm – 1pm                  Lunch
      • Fireside Chat: Moon to Mars U.S. Leadership
  • 1pm – 3:30pm              Plenary Session
      • Keynote: Col. Joe Roth, SSC/SZI
  • 3:30pm – 5pm              Concurrent Working Groups – Session 1 – Current State/Review 2023 Recommendations
    • Space Policy & Regulation Landscape
    • Financing Space
    • Space Sensing
    • Novel Space Activities
  • 5pm – 7:30pm              Hosted Dinner and Networking, NewSpace Launchpad
      • (2420 Alamo Ave SE. Suite 104, Albuquerque, NM 87106)
  • 7am – 5pm                       Check In and Exhibitor Hall Open
  • 7am – 8am                       Breakfast / Welcome
  • 8am – 9am                       Concurrent Working Groups – Session 2 – Inflection Points/Challenges
    • Space Policy & Regulation Landscape
    • Financing Space
    • Space Sensing
    • Novel Space Activities
  • 9am – 12pm                   Plenary Session
      • Keynotes: Brig. Gen. Steven “Bucky” Butow,  DIU
      • Travis Langster, Space and Missile Defense Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
      • Co-Innovation Session: Space Workforce, STEM & Education – Led by Dr. Scott Erwin, Chief Scientist, AFRL
      • Presentation: Capital LandScape from VC Perspective
      • Presentation: Space Economy Study
      • Co-Innovation Session: Outernet – Led by Steve Nixon & Michael Cheng, Small Sat Alliance
  • 12pm – 1pm                    Lunch
      • Fireside Chat: 2023 SSIB Report – Peter Garretson moderating with Steven “Bucky” Butow, Dr. Andy Williams and A.J. Metcalf
  • 1pm – 1:45pm               Plenary Session
      • Co-Innovation Seesion: Supply Chain Challenges – Led by Steve Jordan Tomaszewski, Aerospace Industry Association
  • 1:30pm – 5pm               Concurrent Working Groups – Session 3 – Recommendations
    • Space Policy & Regulation Landscape
    • Financing Space
    • Space Sensing
    • Novel Space Activities
  • 5pm – 6pm                       Drinks/Networking at Hotel Bar
  • 7am – 8am               Breakfast / Welcome
  • 8am – 12pm            Plenary Session
      • Presentation: International Update – Namrata Goswami, Author, Professor, Strategic Analyst
      • Co-Innovation Session: International Partnerships – Led by Namrata Goswami, Author
      • Co-Innovation Session: Commercial Space Launch – Led by Dale Ketchum, Space Florida
      • Co-Innovation Session: Advanced Power & Propulsion – Led by Mike Doyle, Space Northwest and James Winter, AFRL
      • Outbriefs from Working Groups: 
    • Space Policy & Regulation Landscape
    • Financing Space
    • Space Sensing
    • Novel Space Activities
    • 12pm                        Summary/Closing Remarks

SSIB Exhibitors

Event Sponsors

Space Industrial Leadership Council (SILC)

NewSpace Nexus Ignitor Companies

Ignitor Elite

Goodman Technologies LLC

Goodman Technologies

Based in New Mexico, Goodman Technologies is building disruptive materials for the most extreme environments, allowing customers to achieve their next breakthrough

Kall Morris Incorporated

Kall Morris Incorporated

Based in Michigan, KMI’s Active Debris Removal (ADR) technology will keep space clear for all

AFRL New Mexico logo

Miles Space

Based in Florida, Miles Space enables commercial deep space exploration. Their novel approaches led to being awarded a spot on the Artemis mission

AFRL New Mexico logo

O Analytics

Based in West Virginia, O Analytics offers precision image processing and data fusion expertise to detect space object events while addressing the most complex space domain awareness challenges

AFRL New Mexico logo

TrustPoint

Based in Virginia, TrustPoint provides resilient GPS for the automated and augmented world

Ignitor AAA

Kall Morris Incorporated

Aphelion Aerospace

Based in Colorado, has cracked the code on ecofriendly space propulsion technology without compromising performance

Kall Morris Incorporated

Exos Aerospace

Based in Texas, is one of three companies in the world with a licensed reusable rocket, enabling customers to skip the waiting line to space while saving them money

Kall Morris Incorporated

Magma Space

Based in Washington DC, offers precision control for the modern satellite

Kall Morris Incorporated

Modal Technology

Based in Minnesota, aims to improve the confidence in the outcomes of artificial intelligence systems used in space

Kall Morris Incorporated

O Analytics

In addition to achieving Ignitor Elite Status for one of two concepts submitted to the program, O Analytics advanced a second concept addressing complex space domain awareness challenges to Ignitor AAA status

Kall Morris Incorporated

SaraniaSat Inc.

Based in California, provides high-performance edge computing of multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing imagery for rapid delivery

Ignitor AA

Kall Morris Incorporated

Cheshir Industries

Based in New Mexico, develops and manufactures extremely high-performance antenna hardware

Kall Morris Incorporated

Data Squared USA, Inc

Data Squared leverages advanced analytics, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence capabilities to enable organizations to harness the full potential of their data

Kall Morris Incorporated

Desert Works Propulsion

Desert Works Propulsion is a pioneer in electric propulsion with 180+ years of expertise

Kall Morris Incorporated

Geedop, LLC

Based in Texas, brings invisible patterns into view for human planetary exploration

Kall Morris Incorporated

Space Kinetic

Based in Albuquerque, Space Kinetic is building a space mobility platform that does not require firing a thruster or directly using consumable fuel

Kall Morris Incorporated

Spectronn, Inc.

Spectronn’s trustworthy AI software platform delivers actionable intelligence via a natural language chatbot. It makes complex decisions simple for our customers

Kall Morris Incorporated

Space Products and Innovation, Inc

SPiN simplifies space manufacturing, lowering the time and cost of production for smallsat systems with a plug and play modular approach

Ignitor Alumni

Kall Morris Incorporated

Auriga Space

On a mission to remove launch bottlenecks by offering customers a frequent and reliable launch cadence to space at a dramatically lower cost

Kall Morris Incorporated

Blue Space

Their vision is to protect & safeguard critical space assets by weatherproofing space.  

Kall Morris Incorporated

Evolution Space

Reimaged existing solid propulsion technology to build the simplest, most rapidly deployable small launch platform in the industry

Kall Morris Incorporated

Gorilla Link

Enables smart wireless communications to connect satellite constellations

Kall Morris Incorporated

Lesath International

Lesath’s vision is connecting humanity and space by leading the next generation of space launch vehicles

Kall Morris Incorporated

New Frontier Aerospace

Has an inspiring mission to deliver cargo and passengers anywhere on Earth in less than two hours – in a renewably fueled, net carbon neutral, vertical take-off and landing hypersonic aircraft

Kall Morris Incorporated

Proof Labs

Protecting space systems from cyber-attacks

Kall Morris Incorporated

RS21

Based in New Mexico, RS21 is a data science company that provides technology solutions to protect critical infrastructure, equipment, and space systems through AI-driven predictive maintenance

Kall Morris Incorporated

Southwest Creek Engineering

Building the space drive of the future, today

Kall Morris Incorporated

The Spaceport Company

Builds mobile disaggregated spaceports at sea to greatly expand launch site capacity

Kall Morris Incorporated

TYBRAM

Specializes in training systems for the U.S. Air Force, DoD and other US government agencies