Ms. Sarah Winfrey is a retired Air Force Space officer and is currently the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Branch Chief for USSPACECOM/J8 (Capability & Resource Integration Directorate). In her current position, she is responsible for defining USSPACECOM’s SDA capability requirements, to include environmental monitoring. Her diverse active-duty career included assignments the DoD and IC. She…

Rob Steenburgh has been a space scientist at NOAAs Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) since 2014. He has also served as SWPCs acting Operations Chief for a cumulative four years, as a space weather forecaster, and as the Air Force Liaison to SWPC. His career includes a stint as the Console Operations Lead of NASAs…

Lt Col Haley A. Homan is currently assigned as the Chief of the Environmental Monitoring Branch, at Headquarters Space Operations Command, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. She leads a 5-member team and oversees current and future operations of DoD’s space- and ground-based Space Domain Awareness & Environmental Monitoring assets. She advocates for resources and develops…

Mr. John Hicks is currently a Principal Program Manager for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and a member of the Principal Professional Staff supporting the National Security Space, with a focus on Space Cyber Security and Tactical Space Domain Awareness. From August 2017 to May 2022 John was assigned to lead the…

Tiffany Wong Hall oversees Blue Origin’s Commercial and International Sales team, which is focused on domestic and international commercial and government customers. Before joining Blue Origin in 2017, Tiffany was with Aerojet Rocketdyne in their Project Engineering and Business Development organizations. Tiffany earned an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science…

Dr. Sara Seager is a Professor of Planetary Science, Professor of Physics, and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she holds the Class of 1941 Professor Chair.  She has been a pioneer in the research field of exoplanets, with ground-breaking work ranging from the detection of exoplanet atmospheres…

Martin Frederick is Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs for the Space, Intel, and Cyber Customer Relations Team in Northrop Grumman Corporation Strategy and Development organization. He is the primary interface to senior government leadership in Washington DC on issues related to civil space activities, including human spaceflight, human and robotic space exploration, Earth science, space…

Lee Feinberg is a co-chair of the Habitable Worlds Observatory Technical Assessment Group.  Prior to that, Lee was the optics lead and Optical Telescope Element (OTE) Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland for over two decades. Earlier in his career, Lee was the Assistant Chief…

Dr. Joseph Westlake is the Director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters where he leads a world-class team in understanding Earth’s most important and life-sustaining star. Dr. Westlake oversees NASA’s work to study key space phenomena and improve situational awareness of the very space our astronauts, satellites, and robotic missions travel…