Brad Bode Featured in The Decision Layer from Constellations

Our CTO & Co-Founder joins Constellations for the first installment of The Decision Layer.

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Our CTO & Co-Founder Brad Bode is featured in the first installment of The Decision Layer, a new Constellations series from Kratos that explores how senior technology leaders make the decisions that move space organizations forward.

“Great software has a strong separation of concerns, and our industry has been ignoring that.”

Brad Bode, CTO & Co-Founder of ATLAS Space Operations

Drawing on 26 years of building mission software and his work as the architect of Freedom®, our GSaaS platform, Brad shares where the space technology stack should converge and where it should stay separate. He also discusses:

  • Why the ground should tell operators instantly whether a bad pass was a ground or spacecraft issue
  • Why owning hardware was never the goal
  • How space relay and crosslinking could reshape the ground segment
  • Why security will matter more as AI changes the threat landscape
Read the full interview on Constellations

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