Tech Trends 2019 l Deloitte Insights
Tech Trends 2019 Space industry perspective
Space technologies have a long history with disruption. The last decade has seen widespread change— for example, governments and other public entities historically played a driving role in space research and services, yet tomorrow’s disruptive space technologies increasingly will be driven by commercial forces. And the future will bring additional disruption in the areas of human spaceflight, in-space manufacturing, and next-generation communications.
The combination of emerging technologies, new operating models, Organizations should look beyond the digital frontier—toward and other innovative concepts can accelerate the diffusion of space a future state in which transformation occurs across all mission technologies across multiple economies and sectors: intelligent portfolios and operating organizations. interfaces that integrate launch-range data into the National Airspace System; blockchain applications that validate remote As industry and government leaders work to reshape their sensing data; AI and machine learning applied to space science organizations, acquisition processes, and missions to take advantage missions. These and other advances can help produce substantial of new digital capabilities, they will require fresh, focused, sector- value that extends beyond any one organization. relevant insights. Begin here, with this report that provides a timely perspective on Deloitte’s Technology Trends 2019: Beyond the digital In the face of the changes ahead, it is not enough to simply plan frontier, focused specifically on the trends affecting the operators for digital transformation and assume that success will follow. and users of space systems. Macro technology forces at work
Nine technology forces (cloud, analytics, Getting started Trends in action experience, blockchain, cognitive, digital •• Learn from history. This is not the first Organizations in the space industry are reality, core modernization, cyber, and the time satellite constellations, low-cost space making more progress by integrating business of technology) are the backbone access, or remote sensing products have multiple pioneering new technologies of innovation past and present. Combining been tried. This time, they look to become than by piloting new tools one at a time. them compounds the effects of purposeful, the new normal. AI streamlines licensing and regulatory transformational change and can enhance •• Embrace technology at the core. New filing for satellite and launch operators. mission resiliency, lower operational costs, tools will affect the entire space mission, Blockchain enhances secure supply or service more markets. but only if acquisition and development chains. Digital reality enhances mission embrace them faster. assurance. Cloud provides a resilient