BlackSky Technology Inc. announced the formation of Strategic Advisory Group and the appointment of three prominent U.S. leaders with diverse backgrounds from the national security, defense and intelligence communities. This new advisory group will provide deep insight and guidance to company's leadership on business growth, technology investment, and strategic partnership opportunities. Members of company's inaugural Strategic Advisory Group include the following influential thought-leaders from key U.S. military agencies: Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and retired Navy Vice Adm., the Hon.

Joseph D. Kernan, Former Associate Director for Military Affairs at the CIA, retired Army Lt. Gen. John F. Mulholland, Jr., Former Space Force Chief Architect, retired Air Force Col.

Michael R. Dickey. The Strategic Advisory Group joins the company Director Sue Gordon to expand company's network of national security leaders that will inform the company's long-term strategy for the U.S. and international defense and intelligence markets. Kernan served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, where he was the principal intelligence, counterintelligence and security advisor to the Secretary of Defense.

Mulholland served as the CIA's Associate Director of Military Affairs, where he served as the senior military advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence. The career Special Forces officer joined the First Special Forces Regiment in 1983 and led Army and joint special operations units from the time he was a captain until attaining the rank of lieutenant general. He served as Deputy Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command; as the Commanding General, Army Special Operations Command; and as the fifteenth Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command.

Mulholland led two notable joint special operations Task Force Dagger campaigns. Dickey served a career in both public service and the private sector. His military assignments included research and development leadership positions in missile defense, aviation, and space operations with assignments across the Air Force, Joint Staff and National Reconnaissance Office with a special detail to NASA.

In the private sector he focused on the development of space system solutions that leveraged the technology and economics of small spacecraft to meet mission needs.