Gary Peters: “We as policymakers have to start thinking about how to eliminate some of the potential barriers to these developments.”

Commercial satellites are essential to our national security, our economy, and the daily lives of Americans, so we must ensure they are not vulnerable to attacks from cybercriminals and foreign adversaries.

We had a lot of members of Congress that were around the country that were saying, ‘Yeah, let them go bankrupt. You know, that’s okay. That’s capitalism, if they go under, that’s it.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you can’t have a manufacturing…

I feel deeply honored to receive this recognition and I’m thrilled to celebrate this new community space alongside residents and partners.

Making sure we can recruit and retain highly skilled professionals for this essential workforce will improve railway safety in communities across the country.