LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I'm not standing here today giving you answers,” he told an audience of satellite industry executives at the CyberLEO conference. “I'm standing here today giving you problems. I'm…

For this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, we talk with Koen Willems, head of Global Government Strategy at ST Engineering iDirect, and Steve Slater, managing director at GRC Ltd. about advanced mobility. True advanced mobility requires high-performance and high-efficiency, scale and customization. ST Engineering iDirect, a satcom ground segment provider with advanced mobility capabilities, is joined by…

LOS ANGELES — MITRE, the federal contractor that runs R&D labs for the U.S. government, is developing a space cyber lab where real satellite hardware and software can be tested to ensure security. It’s just one of a host of new measures that space companies are adopting to harden their systems against hackers, panelists at the CyberLEO…

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), confirmed Thursday. Speaking to attendees at the CyberLEO cyber security conference in Los Angeles on…