National security space cybersecurity in the cislunar regime
Presented at the Space Education and Strategic Applications conference, looking past geosynchronous orbit to the space between Earth and the Moon.
Arlington, Virginia
Dr.Jen Cannon
Combat aviator, Air Force veteran. Now working on the questions that will decide America's national security and how Virginia shapes them.
1,100+Combat hours
20Years, U.S. Air Force
Doctor of Global SecuritySpace policy & international relations
AboutOfficer · Writer · ScholarFrom the cockpit to the Capitol
Dr. Jen Cannon flew more than 1,100 combat hours as an F-15E Strike Eagle Weapons Systems Officer during a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Since leaving the service, she has led government relations for The Aerospace Corporation and today advises Air Force acquisition leadership on its work with Congress as Senior Defense Policy Advisor at Blue Sky Innovators.
She holds a Doctor of Global Security with a concentration in space policy and international relations, a master's degree in strategic intelligence, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from George Washington University. Her research focuses on how threats and new technology are reshaping U.S. national security in space.
Jen lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is a member of the Truman National Security Project and the Women's Foreign Policy Group.
Northern Virginia is home to the people who keep this country running: service members and veterans, federal workers and contractors, small business owners, and the families who support them. Jen wants to bring the same discipline she learned in the cockpit to working for them, listening first, getting the facts right, and delivering results Virginians can see in their own communities.
Dudette 07
Jen was the Weapons Systems Officer in the lead jet of Dudette 07, the first combat mission in U.S. Air Force history flown by an all-female crew.
RecordMost recent first
Service
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Present
Senior Defense Policy Advisor
Blue Sky InnovatorsSupports Air Force acquisition leadership and its congressional liaison at the Pentagon.
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Prior
Government Relations Director
The Aerospace CorporationLed engagement with Congress for the federally funded research and development center behind much of the nation's space enterprise.
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Active duty
Speechwriter
Secretary of the Air Force · U.S. Air ForceWrote for the Department of the Air Force's senior civilian leader while on active duty.
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20 years
F-15E Weapons Systems Officer
U.S. Air Force, retiredMore than 1,100 combat hours, including the lead jet on Dudette 07.
Academic WorkResearch & writing
Academic work
Targeting Dual-Use Satellites: Lessons Learned from Terrestrial Warfare
Air & Space Operations Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 2023.
How Threats and Innovations Have Affected U.S. National Security Space Policy
Case studies from the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test to the 2022 cyberattacks on satellite networks serving Ukraine, and the rise of reusable launch.
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Virginia38.88° N · 77.10° W
Home in Northern Virginia
Arlington is where Jen has built her life after the Air Force, among neighbors who serve, work, and raise families in the shadow of the federal government. She and her husband, also an Air Force veteran, are raising their three children here. She is listening to people across the community about what matters most to them.
There will be more to share soon.