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SUMMARY:WSBR December Luncheon with Major General Steven Whitney\, USSF
DESCRIPTION:WSBR December Luncheon Featuring Maj. Gen. Steven Whitney\, Director of Staff\, Headquarters\, U.S. Space Force\n\n\n\nOn December 20\, 2019\, the United States’ newest military service\, the Space Force\, was signed into creation. With a charge to secure the United States’ interests in\, from\, and to space\, the service’s development has been a focused interest for the space community – stakeholders in industry\, members of Congress\, the Administration\, international partners and allies – in the five years since. \n\n\n\nJoin the Washington Space Business Roundtable (WSBR) on Wednesday\, December 11\, at Hogan Lovells LLP from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (ET) to hear from a senior USSF leader\, Maj. Gen. Whitney\, on the directive and direction he and his colleagues are achieving for the United States’ security in the space domain. \n\n\n\nWhat has the Space Force achieved in that time? Where is the Space Force going from here? What are the threats today? How can industry partner with USSF to provide innovative solutions? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote\n\n\n\nMajor General Steven Whitney\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaj. Gen. Steve Whitney is the Director of Staff\, Headquarters\, U.S. Space Force\, the Pentagon. In this role\, he synchronizes policy\, plans\, positions\, procedures and cross-functional issues for the U.S. Space Force headquarters staff. \n\n\n\nGeneral Whitney graduated in 1992 from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and completed the university’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program as a distinguished graduate. Through the years\, he has served in a wide variety of space system acquisition and operations leadership positions within the Air Force\, Space Force\, Joint Staff\, Office of the Secretary of Defense\, and National Reconnaissance Office. His assignments include serving as a crew commander\, spacecraft engineer\, senior flight commander\, director of engineering\, squadron commander\, senior materiel leader\, program director and program executive officer. Prior to his current assignment\, Maj. Gen. Whitney was the Military Deputy\, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration\, Washington\, D.C.  He was responsible for research and development\, test\, production\, product support and modernization of Space Force programs worth more than $27 billion annually. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerated By\n\n\n\nKristin Fisher\, CNN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristin Fisher has been leading CNN’s televised space coverage since 2021 when she joined the network as its space and defense correspondent. She’s covered every major space event over the last three years\, broken news about the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon\, secured exclusive access to the Space Force’s first guardian-only basic training\, and interviewed some of the most famous – and infamous – players in the global space industry. She was the first western journalist to interview the controversial former head of Russia’s space agency\, Dmitry Rogozin\, after he ascended to the role of Roscosmos director general. Kristin recently switched roles at CNN from correspondent to contributor to create a space-related YouTube channel\, which will be launching in December 2024. \n\n\n\nAs the daughter of two NASA astronauts\, Kristin grew up in the space industry and spent five years covering the Trump and Biden Administration’s space policies as a White House Correspondent for FOX News. During that time\, she also covered two presidential impeachment trials\, the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns\, and two administration’s efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. She also traveled extensively with the President and Vice President\, including a top secret trip to Afghanistan with former President Donald Trump. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining FOX News in 2015\, Kristin worked her way up through local TV news markets in Grand Junction\, Colorado; Little Rock\, Arkansas; and Washington\, D.C. where she won an Emmy Award as a one-man-band reporter for the city’s CBS affiliate. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Boston University’s College of Communication. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration closes on Friday\, December 6th at 2pm ET. \n\n\n\nRegistration Rates \n\n\n\nIndividual Seat$85Half Table$320Full Table$640\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank You To Our Event Sponsor!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank You To Our Event Partner!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKET POLICY \n\n\n\nTickets are refundable up to 10 business days prior to the event date and are transferable at any time. Please contact info@wsbr.org with any changes to your registration.
URL:https://wsbr.org/event/wsbr-december-luncheon-with-major-general-steven-whitney-ussf/
LOCATION:Hogan Lovells LLP\, 555 13th St.\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20004
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