Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb) Delivers Government Keynote Address at 21st Annual Satellite Industry Association DoW Commercial SATCOM Workshop

Washington, D.C., December 18, 2025 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today thanked the Honorable Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) for delivering the Government keynote address at SIA’s DoW Commercial SATCOM Workshop being held in Arlington, VA. Senator Fischer addressed a gathering of U.S. Government and Military leaders and Satellite Industry Executives as SIA celebrated the 21st anniversary of its workshop.

Senator Fischer is the senior senator from Nebraska and serves on six important Senate committees: Armed Services, Appropriations, Commerce, Agriculture, Rules, and Ethics. As a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, she serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, which focuses on America’s nuclear triad and associated delivery systems, the emergence of space as a warfighting domain, and defending the nation against increasingly sophisticated missile threats. The subcommittee directly oversees two unified combatant commands: U.S. Strategic Command, headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and U.S. Space Command. Please click HERE for a complete copy of the Senator’s bio.

“As we enter the third decade of organizing our premiere Workshop event, on behalf of SIA and its members, I would like to thank Senator Fischer for delivering her keynote address to our gathering of U.S. Military leaders and satellite industry executives,” said Tom Stroup, president of the Satellite Industry Association. “SIA commends Senator Fischer for her recognition of the rapidly expanding importance of the satellite frontier as well as the vital benefits they provide from space-based connectivity to national security.”

The DoW Commercial SATCOM Workshop, co-hosted by the Satellite Industry Association and the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM*), is taking place in Arlington, VA. The Workshop is one of the Association’s premier annual events and featured more than 50 speakers from the U.S. Government and the commercial satellite industry. For more than two decades, the Workshop has brought together U.S. Government and military leaders and decision-makers with the commercial satellite industry. For more information regarding the Workshop, please visit the Workshop website at www.dodsatcom.com.

* Note: U.S. Space Command co-sponsorship of this event does not constitute federal endorsement of SIA or any other sponsors of this workshop.

About The Satellite Industry Association
SIA is a U.S.-based trade association providing representation of the leading satellite operators, service providers, manufacturers, launch services providers, and ground equipment suppliers. For more than two decades, SIA has advocated on behalf of the U.S. satellite industry on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the satellite business. For more information, visit www.sia.org.

SIA Executive Members include: Amazon; Comtech; DIRECTV; EchoStar Corporation; Eutelsat Tech Corp; HawkEye 360; Iridium Communications Inc.; Kratos Defense & Security Solutions; Ligado Networks; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Planet Labs PBC; SES Americom, Inc.; Spire Global Inc.; and Viasat Inc. SIA Associate Members include: The Aerospace Corporation; Artel, LLC; AST Space Mobile; Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; The Boeing Company; ExoAnalytic Solutions; Integrasys LLC; Kinematics; Kymeta Corporation; Ovzon; Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Satcom Direct Government; Skyloom and Telesat. SIA Affiliate Members include: AvL Technologies; COMSAT; Cooley LLP; DLA Piper; Globalstar; Greenberg Traurig LLP; Hogan Lovells; Jenner & Block; Keysight Technologies, Inc.; Media Broadcast Satellite; Orbital Research; Peraton; Plexus Corp; Quadsat; Sheppard Mullin; Wiley; Xairos Systems Inc., and XTAR, LLC.

Media and PR Contact: Dean Hirasawa
Satellite Industry Association
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