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Josiah Gruber
Josiah Gruber is the CEO of Scout Space, a Reston, Virginia company building sensors and software to detect, track and characterize objects in orbit. An optical and RF remote-sensing engineer with more than 15 years of hands-on experience, he joined Scout in 2023 as an engineer, rose to VP of Engineering and then CTO, and took the top job in late 2025. Under his leadership Scout raised an $18M Series A in May 2026 and is putting its Owl optical payload on the inaugural flight of Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft.
Even Rogers
Even 'Jolly' Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of True Anomaly, the first company built exclusively around space superiority for U.S. national security. A former Air Force space operations officer and Weapons School graduate who helped write the U.S. military's foundational space doctrine, he left uniform and 12 days later started building autonomous spacecraft and mission software for combat in orbit. Under his leadership True Anomaly raised a $650M Series D in April 2026 at a $2.2B valuation, crossing $1B in total funding.
Scout Space
Scout Space is a Reston, Virginia defense and space company building the sensing layer for orbit. It develops electro-optical and infrared sensors (Owl and Sparrow), onboard autonomy software co-developed with the U.S. Space Force, and edge-processing and mission-design platforms that let spacecraft detect, track, and characterize objects in orbit - even without ground contact. Scout's pitch: a proliferated network of in-space sensors is fundamental to operating safely in an increasingly crowded and contested orbital environment.