Bill LaPlante, PhD, senior vice president at the MITRE Corporation and former US Air Force acquisition chief, and Jamie Morin, PhD, vice president and executive director of the Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and former Pentagon director of cost assessment and program evaluation, discuss challenges to the nation’s space enterprise, the need to upgrade Cold-War era architectures (especially in terms of sensing and missile defense), harnessing commercial innovation, balancing speed and efficacy while modernizing national security space — whether through acquisitions or development — and more during a Feb. 28, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The interview was conducted after the “Strategic National Security Space: FY19 Budget Forum” event co-hosted by CSIS’ Aerospace Security Project and the Jacques & Associates consultancy.
