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Gabe Mounce, Director, Space Force Accelerators, interviews Dr. Gregory Falco of Johns Hopkins University about his university team’s experience with the Hyperspace Challenge. Prof. Falco led a research team selected as the Hyperspace Challenge’s inaugural university cohort tasked with improving automatic hazard detection and avoidance, and he now collaborates closely with NASA JPL on cubesat cybersecurity research.

Through an informal Q&A format, Dr. Falco offers insights into the team’s experience as part of the Hyperspace Challenge program, including: 1) the primary value of the program to university researchers; and 2) advice for other universities considering working with a government accelerator.

Glossary of terms:
SBIR: Small Business Innovation & Research;
STTR: Small Business Technology Transfer & Research (grants for small businesses to develop technology solving problems of interest to the government)
STAR: Space Technology Advanced Research (rapid funding for highly promising space technology)
BAA: Broad Agency Announcement (a notice from the government that requests scientific or research proposals from private firms concerning certain areas of interest to the government. Proposals submitted may lead to contracts.)

About Dr. Gregory Falco
Prof. Falco has been at the forefront of critical infrastructure and space system security in both industry and academia for the past decade. His research titled Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems was highly influential in the recent Space Policy Directive-5, which shared the same title.
He has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for his inventions and contributions to critical infrastructure cybersecurity, and has been published in Science for his work on cyber risk.
He is currently an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Assured Autonomy and the Civil and Systems Engineering Department. Prof. Falco serves on the Leadership Council for the Maine Spaceport Complex, as an advisor to the Space Generation Advisory Council’s Security Project Group, as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group and on the board of directors for bluShift – the bio-fueled “Uber” of smallsat launch. He is also a Cyber Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, and Research Affiliate at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Falco completed his postdoc at Stanford University, PhD at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, master’s degree at Columbia University and bachelor’s degree at Cornell University.

Chapter Guide
0:00 - 0:51 Gabe’s introduction and preamble with Greg (1 min)

0:51 - 2:12 Greg gives an overview of his particular area of research and explains what prompted him to apply for the Hyperspace Challenge

2:12 - 3:12 Greg explains why his university team’s technology was a fit for the Hyperspace Challenge

3:12 - 4:10 Hyperspace Challenge was Greg’s first experience with a government accelerator

4:10 - 5:53 Greg talks about the relationships that his team formed during the program and the benefits of those relationships to his work

5:53 - 6:44 Greg talks about the most surprising thing he learned about working with the government

6:44 - 7:38 Greg talks about what he found most useful about working with the government throughout this process

7:38 - 8:31 Greg gives some advice about the specific types of university teams that should consider applying for the Hyperspace Challenge

8:35 - 9:15 Greg shares what university teams should know about this program in order to maximize their experience

9:15 - 10:19 Greg gives some final words of advice for university teams (spoiler alert: just do it!)

10:19 - 10:32 Gabe signs off

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