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The Pentagon is creating a new advisory group to provide impartial advice and insights on space technology, innovation and strategy, according to an April 4 memo from Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist.

According to the memo, a Space Advisory Committee will be created under the Defense Innovation Board, a panel of business leaders, scholars, entrepreneurs and technologists led by Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman of Alphabet.

The chair of the space committee will be Mark Sirangelo, a scholar in residence in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and former chief executive of Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems.