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Growth of Satellite Technology

Posted: October 4th, 2015

By Walter Scott

Dr. Walter S. Scott is the founder of DigitalGlobe and currently serves as Executive Vice President and General Manager, USG. From 1986 through 1992, Dr. Scott held a number of technical, program, and department management positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including serving as the assistant associate director of the Physics Department. Prior to this, Dr. Scott served as president of Scott Consulting, a Unix systems and applications consulting firm.

Q&A with Walter Scott, Founder of DigitalGlobe

One of the major commercial satellite companies is DigitalGlobe.   The Cipher Brief sat down with its founder, Walter S. Scott, who discussed the universal availability of imagery today and the dramatic changes impacting both the industry and the U.S. government.

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