Guardian is led by a highly qualified technical team whose members possess extensive experience building satellites, and executing and managing required activities to assemble, integrate, and test the space, communication, and ground segments of the GSTS architecture. The team also possesses a significant competitive advantage based on its senior leadership’s long-standing, trusted relationships with key decision-makers across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Executive Office of the President, other government departments and agencies, and in the commercial sector. These relationships provide vital insight into the government’s resource allocation priorities and mission-critical decision-making processes. The team also brings a proven, disciplined approach to managing technical risk, with a clear and executable plan for delivering both the hardware and software components of the architecture. With its U.S. Government operating license, GSTS has already cleared the most significant non-technical hurdle to mission execution.