OBJECTIVES

CONNECT

• All attendees will have many opportunities to network across sectors, industry, technologies, and geographies.
• Each selected company will experience facilitated connections with other companies, government personnel, and others who can help them in
  their business.
• The entire event is designed to bring together previously insulated communities and catalyze the network effect of innovation to transform and
  accelerate the industry.

INNOVATE

• The event is designed to highlight and enable government buyers to pursue the most promising solutions to the most pressing challenges in the space domain.
• All Space Challenge participants and attendees will have the opportunity to explore conversations, ideas, collaborations, and contracting opportunities.
• All attendees will learn how commercial capabilities can be used to address Department of Defense space concerns.

EDUCATE

• All attendees will get an up-close view of the future of space industrial development and government priorities.
• Government attendees will learn more about how to use commercial innovation tools.
• Private sector attendees will learn about the value of partnering with government to solve big challenges.
• All attendees will learn about a wide range of contracting opportunities to work with the government, including prototyping money, SBIR/STTR awards, and a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) to facilitate quicker contracting actions.