John A. Moberly
Chief Growth Officer & General Manager, Ibeos
John A. Moberly’s biggest recent achievements at Ibeos include:
- Leading on edge computing and GPU-based processing in space,
- Growing the space avionics company Ibeos dramatically and more than doubling revenue in 2025, and
- Scaling space production with the delivery of 120 space batteries and 100 Modular Power Systems on order in the last year.
In terms of how Ibeos aligns with the current administration’s priorities to reduce cost, streamline operations and improve government efficiency, Moberly said, “A key to our growth is the ability to leverage automotive grade electronics and reconfigure, redesign, and make operational for the power, thermal, and radiation environment of space – this gives us an order of magnitude in cost reduction.”
Ibeos is investing in and developing flexible product lines that enable the federal government and space primes to buy subsystems with rapid, low-cost modifications rather than pay to develop them for each bespoke effort. The company is working rapidly and roughly equally with both VC-backed space startups as well as traditional space primes to accomplish its objectives.
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Looking ahead, Moberly and his team are heavily focused on developing the tech roadmap for high performance space computing, to include developing the spaceflight computer around the NASA-funded High Performance Space (HPSC) chip. They’re also focused on thought-leadership on data centers in space from a technical and business case perspective, and building out Edge Compute for three key mission areas:
- Autonomous flight applications, dynamic space operations and Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) with computer vision applications on GPU-based Edge Computing,
- On-board Space Processing for time-sensitive targets such as Missile Warning/Missile Track, and
- High-speed dynamic space processing for networking and routing for mesh networks in space.
Fun fact: While in grad school at Stanford, Moberly was a student PM and on the team for the first ever CubeSat built and flown while also working on Gravity Probe-B, which tested and confirmed Einstein’s Theories of Special Relativity.