b'6 Partner News Summer 2022IET updatesJoin Milsatcoms 2022 online for free for MOD and UK Space Agency personnelThe Milsatcoms conference returns this Juneand for the first time,be in a hybrid format. Delegates will attend a pre-event, onlineAir Vice-Marshal Paul A Godfrey OBE, knowledge transfer day on 8 June, with theCommander at UK Space Command, who will conference on 1617 June, held in person atbe talking about the UK Space Commands IET London: Savoy Place and simultaneouslyrole in the UK Defence Space Strategy. A streamed online. fighter pilot most of his career, recently, he has been responsible for the planning and All MOD and UK Space Agency personneldeployment of coalition air and space power can attend all three days free of charge ifacross the Middle East within the US Air attending online, and there are discountedForce Combined Air and Space Operations rates available for those wishing to attendCentre.the in-person conference.Rebeca Evernden, Director for Space at BEIS, What will be covered? will be opening the conference with a talk The conference has been a recognisedon implementing the UK Space Strategy. source of milsatcoms technical and strategicRebecca is a space policy expert who has updates for 20 years, and this year is noworked with international government exception. Youll hear about the UKs spacedepartments and led the Space Industries strategy and what this means for the militaryBill for the UK Space Agency.sector, the role of government agencies, such as the UK Space Agency, BEIS andWere lucky enough to have two senior Ofcom, and opportunities that can arise fromspeakers from the UK Space Agency military-private partnerships. joining us. CEO, Paul Bate, will be looking at catalysing investment in the UK space On the technology side, youll learn someindustry to support telecommunications.Programme snapshot for 2022best practices around building scalable andIan Annett, the Deputy Chief Executive for resilient infrastructure, mitigating the impactProgramme Delivery, will tell you everything UKs Space Strategy and what it of space overcrowding and extreme weather,you need to know about how the UK Spacemeans for the military sectorand the latest developments in the field,Agency works alongside the MOD and Project updates and partnership including a progress report on Skynet. how they deliver civil space capability andopportunities programmes.Mitigating the impact of space Meet expert thought leaders overcrowding and extreme weatherYoull meet and learn from key playersTo see the full programme, learnRole of the private sector in meeting through the milsatcoms value chain. Some ofmore about the speakers and how military requirementsthe principal speakers will include: to book at our special rate, visit:Network with over 100 delegates theiet.org/milsatcomsacross the milsatcoms value chainTom Gallagher, Program Director at NATO Merging threats and technologies for Allied Command Transformation, who will besatellite communicationtalking about #satcom modernisation and Building resilient and scalable meeting the Day Zero multi-national alliedinfrastructures interoperability challenge.'