If the United States wants to defend the homeland against the next generation of missile and aerial threats, hardware alone will not save us.

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Ryan Frigm is the Chief Engineer - Space at Applied Intuition. Previously, Ryan was the Deputy Director of the Space Development Agency and the agency's first Technical Director.