The USS Sirotin Intelligence Expands Operations!

Captain's Log, Stardate 2025.11

The USS Sirotin Intelligence has completed its initial five-month campaign, recruiting nearly 1,000 members across the federation...

It started with one conversation. Guy Thomas told me how he invented Satellite AIS after 9/11, spent 27 months fighting skeptics who said space-based ship tracking would never work, and watched Russians pull his satellites off a launch vehicle because his intelligence background made them nervous. Today, 230+ AIS receivers orbit Earth. His invention became the most significant paradigm shift in maritime awareness since radar.

That conversation convinced me this community needed to exist. The space and defense sectors are full of Guy Thomases: people with transformative capabilities who spent years fighting to get them funded and deployed. Their stories needed a platform.

Five months and nearly 1,000 members later, we're ready to expand.

Phase Two is live!

• Strategic Communications: Your technology works. Your pitch deck puts people to sleep. Sirotin Intelligence now helps space professionals, ventures, and programs translate technical brilliance into narratives that move capital, win partnerships, and get stakeholders to sign. You already know how to explain what your technology does. We teach you how to make a Senator fight to fund it.
• Exclusive Reports: Beginning with our flagship paper, Strategic Communications for Space Programs, Companies & Professionals 101. Built on lessons learned from 50+ interviews with professionals from our community. Your breakthrough technology deserves better than death by PowerPoint. This framework walks anyone through the process: how to know your audience, how to translate for different stakeholders, how to build narratives that win, and how to avoid the mistakes that sink programs.
• Expert Panels: Coming soon, featuring the people who built the systems we rely on. Grid security experts explaining what happens when satellites go dark. Maritime surveillance pioneers who made the oceans transparent. Kinetic launch developers who can get payloads to orbit in hours. Lunar mining strategists wrestling with who owns resources off-Earth. Missile warning architects protecting cities you'll never hear about. Directed energy engineers building weapons that strike at the speed of light. The operators, engineers, and program managers talking about what comes next.
• Weekly Interviews: Continuing our in-depth conversations with experts and insiders across the space and defense ecosystem, published directly to the crew.

And much more to come...

Our Mission

To transform ideas from drawing board to funded reality by delivering strategic intelligence that bridges technical complexity with actionable insight. We connect industry pioneers, emerging leaders, and decision-makers with the analysis they need to shape space policy and secure America's position in the space economy.

Our Vision

To become the definitive platform where six decades of aerospace wisdom meets tomorrow's innovators, where influential voices cultivate the next generation of space leaders, and where strategic clarity directly impacts how capabilities get funded, deployed, and protected.

Why This Matters

You all know me. I don't come from space or defense. I'm a curious observer and strategic communicator who sees the space economy with fresh eyes, and I've realized that distance from the technical trenches is exactly what this industry needs to translate its brilliance into action.

Space is no longer a frontier. It's contested terrain where the United States cannot afford narrative gaps or misaligned stakeholders.

Nearly 1,000 of you have joined to form the nucleus of a community capable of influencing policy, shaping strategy, and defining American space leadership.

One conversation started it all. A community will shape what comes next.

The bridge has been upgraded. New HQ is live.

Set phasers to "cut through the noise."

Live long and prosper, space cadets 🖖