Welcome to the DEFAERO Andy Marshall Strategy Series, our discussion with leading thinkers on security, business and technology. Our guest Sam Araki, a former president of Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space who was one of the founding engineers on the Corona reconnaissance program now an advisor to big data and AI firm Rhombus, discusses lessons from the ground-breaking Cold War space program, how to execute ambitious programs quickly and keys to agility with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
This conversation is part of a series on strategists and strategy devoted to the memory of one of the nation’s greatest national security strategists, Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s office of net assessment and sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.