Focus on Cyber Insecurity of Space Systems

摘要

Through my career I have had the opportunity to be a part of or review many U.S. national security space and cyber acquisition programs. In particular, over the past 20 months, I have been lucky enough to participate as part of the Independent Program Assessment team used by the Department of Defense (DoD) as programs approach milestone decisions. Given the troubles space acquisition has had and the new emphasis by DoD on cyber security, two questions I frequently get asked are: 1) What is the biggest problem with our space acquisition programs, and 2) What is the most important overlap between space and cyber? The answer to both questions is the same.