AFCEA - Los Angeles

David Anhalt, co-chair of the Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) is our featured speaker.  The HPA is a satellite industry alliance formed to increase awareness of the benefits of hosted government payloads on commercial satellites. The U.S. National Space Policy published in 2010 calls for an increasing role for commercial space to meet government requirements. It also explicitly directs the use of non-traditional options for the acquisition of space goods and services, and cites hosted payloads as one of these non-traditional options. The policy notes that public-private partnerships with the commercial space industry can offer timely, cost-effective options to fill government requirements.

HPA Goals

1. Serve as a bridge between government and private industry to foster open communication between potential users and providers of hosted payload capabilities.
2. Build awareness of the benefits to be realized from hosted payloads on commercial satellites.
3. Provide a forum for discussions, ranging from policy to specific missions, related to acquisition and operation of hosted payloads.
4. Act as a source of subject-matter expertise to educate stakeholders in industry and government.

Mr Anhalt is Vice President of U.S. Government Solutions for Space Systems/Loral (SS/L).  Mr. Anhalt has more than 35 years of industry experience in systems engineering, weapon acquisition, and strategic planning. Prior to joining SS/L, Mr. Anhalt spent seven years at Orbital Sciences Corporation where he directed a portfolio of national security space programs. In that role he conceived, captured, and managed the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) flight test demonstration scheduled for launch in 2011 to evaluate modern wide-field-of-view staring sensors for missile warning. CHIRP is the largest unsolicited proposal ever awarded on a sole source basis in the history of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center and is the U.S. Government’s first experiment hosting a military payload on a foreign owned commercial spacecraft.

Dress code is Business / Uniform of the Day.

Location and Directions to the Proud Bird Restaurant
GPS: 33.935405, -118.378351
11022 Aviation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093

Check In and Networking - 11:00AM - 12:00
Sit Down, Announcements, and Lunch - 12:00
Expected End time - Usually 1:45PM

To secure an available seat, please signup by 5PM on Tuesday Oct 25, 2011.
Prior Registration/Signup is Required.

We will offer open seats to walkins at 1200 if there are any.

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Colonel David A. Anhalt (U.S. Air Force, retired) joined Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) as Vice President of U.S. Government Solutions in February 2011.  Mr. Anhalt leads selected strategic initiatives in the company’s current and adjacent markets and promotes new technology, business approaches, and product offerings supporting future growth in the national security space sector. 

Mr. Anhalt has more than 35 years of industry experience in systems engineering, weapon acquisition, and strategic planning.  Prior to joining SS/L, Mr. Anhalt spent seven years at Orbital Sciences Corporation where he directed a portfolio of national security space programs.  In that role he conceived, captured, and managed the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) flight test demonstration scheduled for launch in 2011 to evaluate modern wide-field-of-view staring sensors for missile warning.  CHIRP is the largest unsolicited proposal ever awarded on a sole source basis in the history of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center and is the U.S. Government’s first experiment hosting a military payload on a foreign owned commercial spacecraft.

Full Bio is available online.

Dress code is Business / Uniform of the Day.

Location and Directions to the Proud Bird Restaurant
GPS: 33.935405, -118.378351
11022 Aviation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093

Check In and Networking - 11:00AM - 12:00
Sit Down, Announcements, and Lunch - 12:00
Expected End time - Usually 1:45PM

To secure an available seat, please signup by 5PM on Tuesday Nov 15, 2011.
Prior Registration/Signup is Required.

We will offer open seats to walkins at 1200 if there are any.

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Oct 28, 2011 - Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski

Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski is the Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air

Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. She is responsible for more than 5,000 employees nationwide and an annual budget of $10 billion. As the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, General Pawlikowski manages the research, design, development, acquisition, and sustainment of satellites and the associated command and control systems. Her extensive portfolio includes military satellite communication, missile warning, navigation and timing, space-based weather, space launch and test ranges, certification for launch, space superiority, responsive space and other emerging evolutionary space programs.

Full BIO

At this Luncheon - AFCEA-LA will also present scholarships to AF ROTC cadets as well as LA AFB personnel.

Dress code is Business / Uniform of the Day.

Location and Directions to the Proud Bird Restaurant
GPS: 33.935405, -118.378351
11022 Aviation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093

Check In and Networking - 11:00AM - 12:00
Sit Down, Announcements, and Lunch - 12:00
Expected End time - Usually 1:45PM

To secure an available seat, please signup by 5PM on Tuesday Oct 25, 2011.
Prior Registration/Signup is Required.

We will offer open seats to walkins at 1200 if there are any.

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Sep 15, 2011 - MR. DAVID W. MADDEN

Mr. David W. Madden, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director, Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. He is responsible for acquiring, deploying, and sustaining the $40B MILSATCOM portfolio of programs which consists of ACAT I and II programs including the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), Milstar, Global Broadcast Service (GBS), the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS), the Advanced EHF (AEHF) program, the Enhanced Polar System (EPS), the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C), and associated Terminals programs.

Dress code is Business / Uniform of the Day.

Location and Directions to the Proud Bird Restaurant
GPS: 33.935405, -118.378351
11022 Aviation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093

Check In and Networking - 11:00AM - 12:00
Sit Down, Announcements, and Lunch - 12:00
Expected End time - Usually 1:45PM

To secure an available seat, please signup by 5PM on Tuesday Sep 13, 2011.
Prior Registration/Signup is Required.

We will offer open seats to walkins at 1200 if there are any.

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Mr. Douglas L. Loverro, a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service, is the Executive Director, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. He is the senior civilian executive and principal assistant to the commander. His responsibilities include Air Force research, design, development and acquisition of space launch, command and control, and satellite systems.

Mr. Loverro began his Air Force career in 1976 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. During his career he served in the full range of assignments within the Air Force's and the Department of Defense's developmental sectors including multiple Air Force laboratories, the Electronic Systems and Space and Missile Systems development centers, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Mr. Loverro is credited with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments including the invention of the supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine laser, now the heart of the Air Force's Airborne Laser; the initiation of the Air Force's Global Broadcast Service; and establishing the foundation for all Global Positioning System modernization. In November 2002, Mr. Loverro was selected by the Under Secretary of the Air Force to lead the Future Imagery Architecture Program, the nation's largest-ever space system development. He retired from active duty in February 2006 upon selection as a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. He assumed his current role in January 2008.

Dress code is Business / Uniform of the Day.

Location and Directions to the Proud Bird Restaurant
GPS: 33.935405, -118.378351
11022 Aviation Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 670-3093

Check In and Networking - 11:00AM - 12:00
Sit Down, Announcements, and Lunch - 12:00
Expected End time - Usually 1:45PM

To secure an available seat, please signup by 5PM on Tuesday Jul 19, 2011.
Prior Registration/Signup is Required.

We will offer open seats to walkins at 1200 if there are any.

SIGNUP NOW!