Workshop 1: Launch

Workshop 1: Launch!

Date, Time, & Place

Friday, March 7, 2025, 11:00-14:00 Eastern Time

Indiana University's Washington D.C. Advancement Center

1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C. (Willard Office Building, 11th floor) 

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Program

11:00 – 11:10 

 

Welcome & Opening remarks

Scott Shackelford introduces General Gene Renuart (USAF (Ret) (former Commander, NORAD and US Northern Command)

Looking Back and Ahead at Great Power Competition and Power Projection in Space 

11:10-11:20 

 

U.S. Innovation in Space & Cyber Technology - Sen. Todd Young, United States Senator from Indiana, Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 

11:20-11:30 

 

Reflections on Civilian Oversight of Space and Cybersecurity - Michael Sulmeyer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy and the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense 

11:30– 11:45 

 

Introducing the Project Eytan Tepper 

11:45– 12:15 

 

Panel: Space Grand Strategy and Space-Cyber of Power 

Moderators: Scott J. Shackelford, Eytan Tepper, Rob Templeman 

Panelists: Everett Dolman, Professor of Military Strategy and Theory, Air War College; Chris Cleary, former Principal Cyber Advisor for the US Navy; Jaclyn A. Kerr, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic Research, National Defense University; Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC and Hank J. Holland Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University 

12:15 – 12:45 

 

Lunch & Networking 

12:45 – 13:00 

 

Long-term Space Security Challenges and Opportunities - Scott Pace, former Executive Secretary, National Space Council; Director, Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University 

13:00 – 13:25 

 

Fireside chat with Chris Cleary, former Principal Cyber Advisor (PCA) for the Department of Navy, author of the current DON Cyber Strategy - interview by Robert E. Templeman 

13:25– 13:55 

 

Small Group Brainstorming 

Participants will join one of three groups; each group will be presented with a challenge it will address in an open discussion under the Chatham House rule. 

13:55- – 

14:00 

 

Debrief & Next Steps

Scott J. Shackelford