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CyberSatGov Panelists Debate Landscape of a Potential New Cold War in Space

By Rachel Jewett

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022

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CyberSatGov Panelists Debate Landscape of a Potential New Cold War in Space

CyberSatGov panelists (from left) Crystal Lister, Gregor Falco, Dr. John Huth, Melissa Griffith, and Sam Visner. Photo: Via Satellite

RESTON, Va. — The United States is in a new Cold War era. It may be a bold statement, but it is one that the vast majority of attendees at the CyberSatGov conference agreed with on Wednesday, by a show of hands. In a discussion here about geopolitical threats in the space environment, a group of speakers from the Defense Intelligence Agency, MITRE, and Johns Hopkins University analyzed the threat landscape. While Russia is top of mind in terms of threats…

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