Can America Build Fast Enough to Win in Space?

The best technology doesn't matter if you can't build enough of it.That's the industrial base challenge facing national security space right now, and it's the central argument Matt Magaña made during a conversation at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.Magaña is the President of Defense and National Security at Voyager Technologies and a board member of the Space Force Association. He's spent his career on both sides of the defense acquisition equation: managing billion-dollar portfolios at Raytheon, leading high-rate small satellite production at Blue Canyon Technologies, and now building the infrastructure to scale mission-ready systems at volume.In this episode, he and SFA Founder Bill Woolf discuss:- Why manufacturing capacity, not technology, is now the defining variable in space superiority- The two supply chain choke points keeping defense leaders up at night: electronics and propulsion- What Golden Dome demands from the industrial base, and why no single company can deliver it alone- How acquisition reform is shifting the government-industry relationship from vendor to partner- What the "minimum viable product" concept actually means for how industry responds to requirements- Why transparency from the government side is the single most important thing for small companies right now- What Space Force Guardians should understand about their relationship with commercial industry- How to build a company capable of inserting technology at the speed relevance demandsRecorded at the Redwire Stage at the 41st Space Symposium.Hosted by Bill WoolfProduced by Ty HollidayAV By RedwireProduction Support by Emily Honhart and Omar MahmoudMatt Magaña is President of Defense and National Security at Voyager Technologies. He previously served as President and CEO of Blue Canyon Technologies and held executive roles at Raytheon overseeing billion-dollar portfolios in electronic warfare, space control, and missile defense.Learn more about the U.S. Space Force: https://www.spaceforce.mil/Join SFA: https://ussfa.org/Subscribe for more conversations on spacepower, national security, and the future of the space domain.