Lead, mentor and enable Aerospace colleagues to work cooperatively with customer personnel, and contractor personnel to guide risk assessments and mitigation that span the lifecycle; to include system development; assembly, integration, test, low rate initial production, and full production; assess readiness for new technology insertion in the component and radiation areas; recommend investments and data collection to assist customer in acquisition decision making. Defense Systems Group (DSG) provides analysis-based decision support to senior leaders on space architectures, policy and strategy, technology development, warfighter capability enablers, systems integration, defense industrial base, and threat reduction to help shape existing and future space missions across the national security space (NSS) enterprise.