Jeff A. Babione

Sierra Space Corp. is a commercial space company that is focused on innovation and the commercialization of space. Sierra Space is based in Louisville, CO, and Thomas E. Vice has been the CEO of the company since 2021. The company has over 30 years and 500 missions of space flight heritage and is building an end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth. The company is reinventing space transportation with Dream Chaser, the world's only commercial spaceplane, and the future of space destinations with the company's inflatable and expandable space station technology. Sierra Space also builds and delivers a host of systems and subsystems across solar power, mechanics and motion control, environmental control, life support, propulsion, and thermal control, offering myriad space-as-a-service solutions for the new space economy. Sierra Space products and programs are working towards a more accessible space economy. The company is rapidly advancing toward the launch of the world's only winged commercial spaceplane, the Dream Chaser. The Dream Chaser spaceplane and life platform are central components of the joint partnership Orbital Reef commercial space station and mixed-use business park being developed in partnership with Blue Origin.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Service, Inc. manufactures military aircraft parts and engines. It provides 5th Generation fighters, F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor; the proven and affordable fighter, the F-16 Fighting Falcon; and the flexible and versatile airlifter. The company was founded in March, 1995 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.