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Symposium Biographies
2025 Speaker List
Ms. Mandy Vaughn
CEO & Founder GXO Inc., Operating Partner, Embedded Ventures
Mandy is one of the most innovative and influential leaders in the US space industry. She founded GXO in 2021 to drive innovation, unlock new opportunities, and address emerging threats in space. Prior to founding GXO, at Virgin Orbit, Mandy worked on the LauncherOne program for government and commercial customers—including NASA, USSF and OneWeb. She served as president and CEO of VOX Space (a Virgin Orbit subsidiary) with a specific focus on the national security launch market. Additionally, Mandy has worked within General Dynamics Mission Systems, the Air Force as an active-duty...
Dr. Bartlett Russell
Director, Defense Sciences Office, DARP
Dr. Bartlett Russell became the director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) in January 2025. She served as DSO’s deputy director from August 2022-January 2025 and joined DARPA as a program manager in April of 2019. Her career has included industry and government roles in research and development (R&D), during which she has conducted research and led teams of engineers and scientists to create new capabilities for defense applications. Many of her scientific contributions have been within the human domain including aiding and understanding human cognitive processes to enable the...
Ms. LaTasha Dandy
General Manager, Space Dominance Space and Airborne Systems
LaTasha Dandy is the General Manager of Space Dominance within the Space Systems sector in the Space and Airborne Systems Segment of L3Harris Technologies. Space and Airborne Systems provides mission solutions for space and airborne domain with defense, intelligence and commercial applications. Dandy assumed the role in November 2024, reporting to the vice president and general manager of the Surveillance Systems Division. She is responsible for revenue growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, technology development and operational improvements, as well as cost...
Maj Morgan Mitchell
Artificial Intelligence Development Chief, DAF MIT AI Accelerator
Maj Morgan R. Mitchell is an artificial intelligence development chief at the DAF MIT AI Accelerator in Cambridge, MA. She leads the Air Guardian project that performs fundamental research and tests new autonomy methods in aircraft in support of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program in coordination with DARPA and the Test Pilot School. Maj Mitchell received her commission following graduation from Officer Training School in 2012. Earning her missile combat operator badge from ICBM initial qualification training in 2014 and crossflowed as a 15A in October 2017. As a missile...
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