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.

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