T-Minus Space Daily: Interview with Ellison Anne Williams

Excerpt:

"What Privacy Enhancing Technologies do is allow you to securely use data across all these kinds of boundaries and silos to get insights that you could have never gotten before. Our space ecosystem globally and as a country is so heterogeneous and diverse. We have civilian kinds of space assets. We have military space assets. And then the really growing community around commercial space assets. The point of Hybrid Space Architecture is, how do you leverage all of these heterogeneous assets that we have access to and do it in a way that is completely secure and private? And data underpins all of that.

You can hear that boundaries and silos abound in that space community. We really come in and are able to provide that linchpin or cornerstone for secure, decentralized data usage across all of these different kinds of entities.

And if you would have told me when I started this company nine years ago, setting out to create this kind of Privacy Enhancing Technology market, that we would be in space, I probably would have laughed at you. It wasn't something that we set out to do -- put 'PETs in space'. But as we've walked this journey with DIU over the last few years, it makes 100% sense why PETs are so important in this kind of space situational awareness, tactical surveillance and reconnaissance mission portfolio for the U.S. government and for global communities as well."

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