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The Eisenhower Institute
Future of Space
Space Security Working Group
November 24-25, 2003

From left: Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP), Donica Pottie (DFAIT), Andrew Latham (Macalester College), Peter Hays, USAF (Joint Force Quarterly).

WASHINGTON DC -- The Second Annual Space Security Working Group (a.k.a. the Big SSWG) convened at The Eisenhower Institute on November 24-25, 2003. The group met to discuss the first draft of the Space Security Survey, a joint-project of The Eisenhower Institute and the Department of Foreign and Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) of Canada. The Survey is designed to be an overview of the current state of space security, using twelve indicators by which to evaluate it. The first edition of the project, due to be released in 2004, will also include the Space Security Index, a relative measure of the overall status and movement of space security over the past year, which will be set by the working group and a survey of experts.

The 12 Indicators by which the Big SSWG
evaluated Space Security:

Space Debris
Resource (Orbital Slot and Frequency) Allocation
Legal, Normative and Institutional Developments
Space Access
Civil Space Programs and Global Utilities
Space Industry
Space Surveillance
Space and Terrestrial Military Operations
Space Negation
Space Protection
Space-Based Strike Weapons

Participants:

V.S. Arunachalam
Carnegie Mellon University

Phillip Baines
DFAIT

Nebojsa Bjelakovic
Canadian Department of National Defence

Michael Bourbonniere
PWGSC

Michael Dawson
DFAIT

Susan Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Institute

Sarah Estabrooks
Project Ploughshares

Joanne Gabrynowicz
National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center

Nancy Gallagher
University of Maryland

Graham Gibbs
Canadian Embassy - Space Affairs/CSA

Rose Gottemoeller
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Thomas Graham, Jr.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Peter Hays, USAF
Joint Force Quarterly

Theresa Hitchens
Center for Defense Information

David Koplow
Georgetown University

Andrew Latham
Macalester College

Robert Lawson
DFAIT

John Logsdon
George Washington University

Vittorio Manno
International Space Science Institute

Robert McDougall
DFAIT

Michael Moore
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

David Mutimer
York University

Dennis Papadopoulos
University of Maryland

Donica Pottie
DFAIT

Kevin Power
European Competitive Telecommunications Association

Olga Prygoda
The Eisenhower Institute

Roald Sagdeev
University of Maryland

Robert Schingler
Space Generation Foundation

Suzanne Vogel
The Eisenhower Institute

Michael Yarymovych
Consultant