Officials from a broad range of countries and organizations attending the workshop at Global MilSatCom 2015 realized the urgency in addressing the many evolving issues regarding hosted payloads. At this upcoming event officials will address many new and timely issues.

The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) and SMi Group, the producer of Global MilSatCom, are partnering to offer HPA’s Global Government Payload Exploration workshop at Global MilSatCom 2017. This is the result after officials from a broad range of countries and organizations attended the workshop at Global MilSatCom 2015 and continued to see the urgency in addressing the many evolving issues. The workshop will take place November 6, 8:30 a.m.–noon, at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London.

When asked about the issue HPA Chair Al Tadros said that HPA extends its thanks to the SMi Group for once again providing them with the opportunity to hold this workshop at their conference, and that Global MilSatCom is a unique event where government and industry can engage in direct dialogue to address strategies that fill gaps in critical capabilities, and they’re pleased to be a part of it.

The Global Government Payload Exploration workshop serves as an open forum for industry and government representatives to examine current examples of successful commercially hosted government payload programs and discuss how these successes can be replicated across the globe. Hosted payload experts will share lessons from their respective hosted payload programs regarding technical considerations, procurement and funding challenges. The workshop will be led by Rich Pang, Vice President of Government Product Management at SES.

Dale Butler, Managing Director at SMi Group added that the Global Government Payload Exploration workshop is an important part of Global MilSatCom and they’re glad they can help advance the conversation about hosted payloads by providing a setting where it can take place.

Global MilSatCom 2017, described as Europe's leading military event for satellite professionals, will bring together 500 international senior military and key industry representatives to network, benchmark and learn about the latest developments in SatCom technology, discuss strategies to fulfil capability gaps, and address critical military and government requirements.

For those interested in attending, registration is now live on the event website.