CyberSat 2026 · Classified Program
TS/SCI (SI/TK//NOFORN) · Clearance Required

The Briefings That Don’t Leave the Room.

A closed-door event where TS/SCI-cleared professionals from the DoD, intelligence community, and critical industries exchange intelligence and collaborate on next-generation space defense strategies that cannot be discussed in an open forum.

Dates
November 4–5, 2026
Venue
Aerospace Corp SCIF · Chantilly, VA
Clearance
TS/SCI (SI/TK//NOFORN)
Capacity
Limited — Register Early
Register for CyberSat 2026
01 The Constraint
The most operationally relevant space cyber intelligence cannot be shared in public. A TS/SCI-accredited SCIF removes that constraint entirely.
02 The Candor
Every attendee holds active clearance. That shared context produces a level of technical honesty and mission-focused exchange not possible anywhere else.
03 The Access
Facility capacity limits attendance. Speakers from NRO, AFRL, Sandia, SRI, and The Aerospace Corporation present research not published elsewhere.
About the Classified Program

A dedicated program for cleared professionals, inside an accredited SCIF.

Held inside The Aerospace Corporation’s TS/SCI-accredited SCIF in Chantilly, VA, the Classified Program is a two-day closed-door event for senior cleared professionals from DoD, the intelligence community, and critical space industries.

Sessions cover active threat intelligence, real incident analysis, and operational lessons that cannot be discussed in unclassified settings. Speakers share what actually happened, not what can be sanitized for a public audience.

Now in its 10th year, the CyberSat Classified Program is one of the only industry events in the country offering a dedicated two-day classified program inside an accredited facility. Attendance is strictly limited by the venue.

Program Dates
November 4–5, 2026
Facility
The Aerospace Corporation SCIF
Chantilly, Virginia
Clearance Required
TS/SCI (SI/TK//NOFORN)
Registration
Separate from Unclassified Program
Capacity
Limited by facility — seats fill early
2026 Classified Program

Confirmed Speakers

Four confirmed presentations from national laboratory, government research, and commercial engineering leaders. Additional speakers will be announced.

Confirmed Session
Sandia’s Space Cyber Program
Jeffrey Wiemeri, PhD
Manager, Space Systems Strategy & Advanced Concepts · Sandia National Laboratories
Confirmed Session
Autonomous On-Board Cyber Threat Response and Recovery for Satellites
Ulf Lindqvist, PhD
Senior Technical Director · SRI International
Confirmed Session
Breaking the On/Off Paradigm: Granular Cyber Effects Analysis for Space Ground Systems
Paul de Naray
Principal Engineer · The Aerospace Corporation
Confirmed Session
Next-Generation of Cybersecure and Resilient Satellites
Dan Trujillo
Space Cyber Resiliency Lead · Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Confirmed Session
Current Cyber Threats to Space, 2026
Speakers representing the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC)
Counterspace Threat Analysts, NSIC
Additional speakers will be announced. Invitations extended to NSA, NRO, NSIC, CISA, Department of the Air Force, Space Systems Command, MITRE, NOAA, FBI, and U.S. Navy. Participation subject to confirmation.
Why Senior Cleared Professionals Return

What keeps this program on the calendar.

The Classified Program has run alongside CyberSat for a decade. The professionals who attend once tend to return. Here is why.

01
The right people in one room.

Program managers, cleared engineers, and operators from active missions across DoD and the IC. People working the same problems, with the same constraints, and the same clearances. The conversations that start here tend to continue well past the closing session.

02
Working sessions, not keynote theater.

Presenters bring operationally relevant material and expect to be challenged. Attendees ask the questions they cannot ask in public forums. The format is built for working-level exchange, not broad coverage of topics that can be found elsewhere.

03
A community built over ten years.

The program has run long enough that most people in the room already know each other. That history matters when a real incident happens and you need to make a call to someone at another agency. CyberSat is where those relationships started.

What Gets Addressed

The threats that can’t be named in public.

The Classified Program covers the full spectrum of space cyber threats at the level of detail the mission demands.

Classified threat actor TTPs targeting satellite command and control
Active incident analysis and response lessons from live systems
Nation-state attribution and intelligence community perspectives
Autonomous on-board cyber defense and in-orbit recovery
Ground segment vulnerabilities and classified mitigation strategies
Next-generation cybersecure satellite architecture
Space cyber policy, national programs, and acquisition priorities
Multi-domain conflict and the role of space cyber in national defense
Past Speaking Organizations
NRO U.S. Space Force AFRL Johns Hopkins APL MIT Lincoln Laboratory The Aerospace Corporation Space ISAC Viasat United Launch Alliance Sandia National Laboratories SRI International CISA
Register for CyberSat 2026

Classified Program Seats Are Limited

November 4–5, 2026 · The Aerospace Corporation SCIF · Chantilly, VA · TS/SCI Required