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2022 North American Space Summit | See You at the NASS?

September 8, 2022

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October 2^nd thru 4^th – Traverse City, Michigan – Registration is Open!

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Join the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association for its annual North American Space Summit this October 2-4 in Traverse City, Michigan, and hear from some of the world’s most influential leaders in government and defense, automotive, business, aerospace, and more on their initiatives to lead the world in new technology, capabilities, services, and innovation in hypersonics, near-earth, and low-Earth orbit, or LEO.

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Speaker Spotlight

The Next-Gen Solutions for Orbital Debris & Space Traffic Management.

It’s no secret, Orbital Debris and the threat of collisions in space grows with every launch. With few answers for effective management, how does the industry mitigate this risk and create a sustainable ecosystem? Hear directly from industry thought leaders and startups on how next-gen solutions are preparing to answer this call and deliver sustainable dynamic growth.

Dan Schutter

CEO and co-founder of

Space Interactions

Dan Schutter is the passionate and relentless CEO and Co-founder of Space Interactions, Inc. A champion of collaboration, creativity, and inclusion, he has led corporately awarded teams that disrupted, trailblazed and created positive change across multiple industries. Dan relishes difficult and complex problems and, along with Space Interactions, is committed to solving some of the most challenging issues the global space industry faces today.

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Speaker Spotlight

Hypersonic Weapons: A National Security Game Changer

Traveling at Mach 5+ (five times the speed of sound) hypersonic missiles are changing the nature of armed conflict. China and Russia have advanced hypersonic programs leaving the United States in catch-up mode. France, Germany, Australia, and Japan, as well as North Korea, are all actively investigating hypersonic technology. Lt. Gen. (Ret) Keith Kellogg will set the stage for a full day of academic, government, and industry panels discussing the U.S. hypersonic technology research and development programs.

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Former National Security Advisor

Former Chief of Staff of the National Security Council

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Kellogg was an Army officer for 30 years.

He served in combat in Vietnam, Panama, and Iraq, and was awarded a Silver Star.

He commanded the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.

His wife was in the military, his daughter is a West Point graduate. His son is a West Point graduate and is currently deployed. His son-in-law is a West Point graduate who served six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He spent 1,461 days in the Trump White House, longer than any other national security advisor. He served as National Security Advisor to President Trump and Vice President Pence and as Chief of Staff of the National Security Council.

He is the author of War By Other Means: A General in the Trump White House.

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Speaker Spotlight

Jim Cantrell

CEO and co-founder of

Phantom Space Corporation

Jim is the founder of several entrepreneurial start-ups, including Phantom Space, Vector, StratSpace, and Vintage Exotics Competition Engineering, and is a Founder and Managing Partner at Wolverine Capital. He was on the founding team of Moon Express, a private company attempting to land on the lunar surface, and on the founding team at SpaceX where he was the first VP of Business Development. Jim also served early roles with successful startups including Iceye, Skybox Imaging, York Space Systems, and PlanetIQ. StratSpace has a long history in pivotal technical, financing, and M&A roles in the aerospace industry’s most influential and innovative players until it was acquired in 2020.

Jim’s career also includes assignments at the French Space Agency CNES, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and has resulted in experience in over 46 satellite flight missions including the Iridium Next space telephone system, the Lightsail solar sail mission and Osiris-Rex which will return asteroid samples to the Earth. Cantrell is a world-recognized technical innovator and has received numerous professional awards, is the author of twenty technical papers, and has pioneered the concepts of software-defined satellites, micro launch vehicles, and space situational awareness sensors.

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Speaker Spotlight

Brian S. McJilton

Director, Small Business

Air Force Research Laboratory

Wright Patterson AFB Ohio

Mr. Brian McJilton is Director of Small Business for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He is responsible for the AFRL Small Business Programs, and the Air Force Technology Transfer and Transition (T3), commercialization and innovation programs. He focuses on developing novel interactions between AFRL researchers, small businesses, and community partners to provide innovative technologies to meet Air Force requirements and AFRL small business contract award goals. His duties include the identification of small businesses that have capabilities to meet the AFRL requirements, outreach and recruitment of small businesses, transferring and commercializing AFRL intellectual property, and aligning AFRL scientists and engineers with external S&T ecosystem members (e.g., university, industry, government) toward innovation initiatives, and the training of scientists, engineers and contracting officers on the small business and technology transfer programs.

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Speaker Spotlight

Lt. Gen. Nina M. Armagno is the Director of Staff, Headquarters, U.S. Space Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. In this role, she synchronizes policy, plans, positions, procedures, and cross-functional issues for the U.S. Space Force headquarters staff.

Lt. Gen. Armagno earned her commission and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in June 1988. She is a career space operator with over 32 years of operational experience. She is the only person to have commanded both launch wings in the United States Air Force, and she is the first woman General Officer commissioned in the United States Space Force.

Prior to her current assignment, Lt. Gen. Armagno was the Director, Space Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Washington, D.C. She directed the development and procurement of space programs to Air Force major commands, product centers, and laboratories. Her responsibilities included crafting program strategies and options for representing Air Force positions to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the office of the Secretary of Defense, Congress, and the White House. She has also served as Director of Plans and Policy, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. She was directly responsible to the USSTRATCOM Commander for the development and implementation of national security policy and guidance, military strategy, space, and weapons employment policy and concepts and joint doctrine as they apply to the command and the execution of its mission.

North American Space Summit

Attendees will learn about the boundless opportunities for commercial organizations to grow this nearly $424 billion industry, the benefits, and prospects of government partnerships as well as industry issues, trends, and the latest technology.

The summit will feature more than 30 educational and networking sessions for attendees to learn about the next generation of space-enabled communications, autonomous vehicle technology, space supply chains, government applications, funding sources, and more