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Space

Chirag Parikh Named Executive Secretary of National Space Council

By Rachel Jewett

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

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Chirag Parikh Named Executive Secretary of National Space Council

The White House has named Chirag Parikh as executive secretary of the National Space Council. Parikh is the senior director of Azure Space at Microsoft [MSFT], and was previously the director of space policy for the National Security Council from 2010-2016 during the Obama administration. The National Space Council is under the White House, and it is the principal unit for space commerce policy activities. President Biden decided to keep the council in place after President Trump re-established the council…

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