Jim Myers’ biggest recent achievement was delivering value to the U.S. government and commercial space communities in their pursuit of global space leadership and their development of new, evolving ecosystems in all domains of space, including cislunar and low Earth orbit, which are regions of widespread, growing interest.
The Aerospace Corp. has shown the value of placing cyber intrusion detection capabilities onboard satellites. Supporting multiple U.S. government missions, two Aerospace prototypes — SpaceCOP and DARS — successfully demonstrated capabilities in space that leverage machine learning techniques to quickly identify and alert space operators to threats, such as GPS interference and spoofing, which can compromise entire space architectures.
Aerospace Corp. supports the administration’s goals to cut costs, streamline operations and boost efficiency by challenging outdated practices in government. As operator of the nation’s FFRDC for space, its work helps agencies make better decisions, save taxpayer dollars and bring private-sector innovation to national missions, including those at the Pentagon and NASA.
As the U.S. extends its global leadership through new visions for space development and exploration, the value of Aerospace’s insights into commercial and developmental space capabilities and technical lessons learned ultimately empowers and enables the innovators, investors and especially warfighters on the front lines of American growth, security and prosperity.
As the nation’s trusted space partner and a key architect of U.S. space programs, Aerospace is focused on staying ahead of threats, accelerating new capabilities and ensuring coordination across intelligence, defense, civil and commercial sectors, said Tanya Pemberton, executive vice president at The Aerospace Corp.
“These sectors are integrated, and addressing a threat in one strengthens the security of all,” she said. “Jim Myers and his Civil Systems Group team at Aerospace continue to deliver immense value, independent insights, and unmatched technical expertise to keep emerging U.S. space capabilities resilient across the board.”
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Myers and his team are focused on ensuring cybersecurity protections are considered and integrated end-to-end throughout the nation’s emerging space architectures. The U.S. commercial space sector is thriving — with new capabilities and achievements being demonstrated by the day — and the U.S. government is wisely moving to leverage the pace of commercial space innovation.
Aerospace is advancing capabilities intended to outpace cyber and other threats to the country’s national security to further a new era of space commercialization and exploration.
“Space-cyber threats are dynamic, indiscriminate, and always on,” Myers said. “They can reach American interests anywhere, including the frontiers of space, where the costs of compromise are incredibly high. The price of security is our continuous vigilance as well as commitment to information-sharing and collaboration to ensure end-to-end resilience and enable the integration of game-changing cyber defense technologies into the evolving ecosystems we are building in space.”
Fun Fact: Myers is focused on building the technical skills and workforce needed to keep the U.S. competitive in space, a priority for Aerospace Corp. He spent over a decade mentoring veterans through American Corporate Partners, served seven years on the MATHCOUNTS board (including one as chair), and is now in his seventh year teaching business at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.