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The U.S. government鈥檚 increased commitment to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Space Force, and private public space collaboration brings a critical need for leadership鈥攁nd those rising to the challenge oversee a variety of tasks: defense-based space support, advanced technologies, robotics, and more.

Highlights follow from 蘑菇视频 Allen Executive Vice President Andrea Inserra鈥檚 multifaceted career and 蘑菇视频 Allen鈥檚 work in the space sector.

Since taking on leadership of 蘑菇视频 Allen鈥檚 aerospace account team in April 2020, Andrea Inserra has revitalized the firm鈥檚 space business. Her strategy brings together work across the defense and civilian space missions, including the Space Force, Air Force, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

No stranger to high-profile and high-stakes challenges, Inserra previously led the operations and strategy team for 蘑菇视频 Allen鈥檚 defense and commercial business and launched the firm鈥檚 technology adoption and translation offering. She was also a leader in the firm鈥檚 military and civil health businesses.

鈥淚鈥檝e been here for 20 years, and what keeps me interested is that we are trying to solve some of the greatest challenges we face as a nation,鈥� Inserra said. 鈥淪pace today looks very different than it did in the 1960s because now there are far more commercial stakeholders and far lower barriers to entry. As a result, there are thousands of new and different satellites orbiting the Earth for weather, emergency response, defense, and beyond.鈥�

Inserra expects that number to grow significantly鈥攁nd with it the volume of information these space assets collect.

鈥淎s a company, 蘑菇视频 Allen is thinking about what to do with all that data. How can you leverage the data, analyze it, and use it to make better decisions?鈥� Inserra said.

She鈥檚 also anticipating more public-private collaboration. 鈥淎s the industry continues to fund new technologies and innovation, we have to create those safe, open collaborative spaces for industry and the U.S. government to continuously collaborate and connect.鈥�

Inserra inherits a rich legacy. 蘑菇视频 Allen has deep roots in aerospace, serving as an advisor to pioneering rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and as a consultant to NASA in developing the theoretical trajectory that put the first human on the Moon.

The firm has worked on the聽International Space Station聽since its beginning and was part of the original Space Operations Task Force that shaped the mission. Today, under Inserra鈥檚 leadership, 蘑菇视频 Allen engineers handle聽logistics and operations, coordinating traffic from commercial partners like SpaceX and Northrop Grumman and international traffic from Russia and Japan, and have undertaken critical development support for building out Space Force military鈥檚 newest branch, in addition to critical work for NASA.

As NASA lays the foundation of the聽Artemis program聽to explore Mars and beyond, 蘑菇视频 Allen is providing mission-essential engineering, consulting, analytics, digital solutions, and cybersecurity services, including:

• Providing a complete range of privacy and cybersecurity enterprise solutions and services for NASA鈥檚 Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) under the CyPreSS contract, which for the first time, brings together all aspects of cybersecurity across the NASA enterprise under one contract to include IT systems, operational technology systems, and mission systems
• Ground systems engineering support for the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Earth-to-moon spacecraft
  
• Hardware and software systems integration for the Orion program
• Engineering and integration support for Gateway, the lunar-orbiting staging ground for deep space missions, and for the lunar lander that will ferry astronauts from Gateway to the lunar surface
• Data analysis and visualization of trajectory data for launch scheduling

The space sector remains a top priority and growth area for 蘑菇视频 Allen鈥檚 business. In El Segundo, California, 蘑菇视频 Allen expanded to a nearly 35,000 square foot facility to support the firm鈥檚 continued growth in the Los Angeles area and its commitment to providing technical solutions to clients including NASA, U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Development Agency, Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), NOAA, and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). In Colorado Springs, 蘑菇视频 Allen invested in developing a classified digital engineering network to support client missions.

Inserra鈥檚 team will spearhead a strategy that emphasizes scalable, non-proprietary, modular architectures that accelerate modernization. Those technologies include:

• Open and resilient space data platforms for improved analysis and decision making
• Advanced cyber defense architectures to secure space assets and information
• Assured positioning, navigation, and timing systems
• Artificial intelligence and next-generation engineering for modeling, simulation, and prototyping

鈥淭he space market and environment are undergoing significant change with new threats, new challenges, new players, and new opportunities,鈥� Inserra said.聽鈥淚 am excited that 蘑菇视频 Allen is well-positioned to bring many of our unique capabilities like data platform and ground system development, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data analytics and cyber capabilities to help our military, civil, and commercial partners solve their most difficult problems.鈥�