8. Kara Cunzeman: Abundance, Aspiration, and Strategic Foresight

In this episode, Senior Fellow Peter Garretson interviews Kara Cunzeman, a thought leader and Futurist at The Aerospace Corporation.  They discuss strategic foresight, multiple futures, anticipatory policymaking, acquisition reform, and space guard missions including planetary defense and rescue. Kara calls for a more aspirational tone, and enumerates how the National Space Council, Space Force, and NASA have opportunities to plant seeds for an abundant future.

Kara Cunzeman bio:

https://aerospace.org/person/kara-c-cunzeman#:~:text=Kara%20Cunzeman%20is%20a%20senior,Strategy%20at%20The%20Aerospace%20Corporation.&text=Prior%20to%20working%20at%20Aerospace,at%20Raytheon%20and%20General%20Atomics.

Pathfinder's Guide to the Space Enterprise

https://aerospace.org/aerospace-presents-pathfinders-guide-space-enterprise

Space Force's Space Futures Workshop

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1101899.pdf

Strategic Foresign

https://aerospace.org/paper/strategic-foresight-addressing-uncertainty-long-term-strategic-planning

Agenda 2021

https://aerospace.org/SA2021

Aerospace Space Policy Show

https://aerospace.org/thespacepolicyshow

Herman Kahn's

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780004167/downloads/19780004167.pdf

Avi Loeb's book Extraterrestrial on Oumuamua

https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147

Solar Gravity Lens Mission

https://aerospace.org/article/solar-gravity-lens-looks-exoplanets

Space Force S&T Spending

https://www.afpc.org/uploads/documents/Defense_Technology_Briefing_-_Issue_23.pdf