“Engineering the Lunar Frontier:

Mitigating risks for both hypervelocity impacts and Cislunar PNT time lag”

Our speaker today is a leader in the intersection of national security space and planetary

science. A retired Navy Commander and designated Space Operations Officer, he has spent

over 30 years managing high-stakes missions—from directing space indications and

warnings at Vandenberg Space Force Base to heading critical EMI mitigation for billion-

dollar satellite constellations at SPAWAR.

He has a remarkable track record of taking advanced technology from conceptual research

to global operations for agencies like the NRO and US Space Command. Today, he serves

as the Principal Investigator for Project ARMOR, where he is leading the charge in

characterizing hypervelocity impact risks to future lunar infrastructure. Please join me in

welcoming the Founder of Mintaka Space Systems and the Mariner Space Institute, Dr. Jacob Yates.”