Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum

Plase join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project and Defense Budget Analysis Project on Wednesday, February 28 for "Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum." This year's event will feature Congressional perspectives on the dynamic national security space landscape. Discussion and expert analysis will address 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.

Full Agenda:

7:30 - 8:00     Registration and Breakfast

8:00 - 8:10   Welcome

Sean O’Keefe, Distinguished Senior Adviser, CSIS, and former NASA Administrator and Comptroller, Department of Defense
Steve Jacques, Managing Partner, Jacques & Associates

8:10 - 9:00   Panel I: Viewpoints from the Congressional Leadership on Military Space

Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Moderated by Todd Harrison, Director of the Aerospace Security and Defense Budget Analysis Projects, CSIS

9:00 - 9:30   Panel II: Congressional Perspectives from the Space Power Caucus

Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Co-Chair of the Space Power Caucus, and Member of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Representative C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Co-Chair of the Space Power Caucus, and Member of the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense
Moderated by Todd Harrison

9:30 - 9:45   Coffee Break

9:45 - 10:30   Briefing on Strategic National Security Space in the President's FY19 Budget Request

Mike Tierney, Consultant, Jacques & Associates

10:30 - 11:30      Panel III: Analyzing the National Security Space Landscape

Bill LaPlante, Senior Vice President of the MITRE Corporation, and former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
Jamie Morin, Vice President and Executive Director of the Center for Space Policy at the Aerospace Corporation, and former Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
Tom Karako, Director of the Missile Defense Project, CSIS
Todd Harrison, Director of the Aerospace Security and Defense Budget Analysis Projects, CSIS
Moderated by Jen DiMascio, Managing Editor for Defense, Space & Security, Aviation Week & Space Technology 

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