About the LEO Policy Working Group

In 2023, New America’s Wireless Future program and the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) co-chaired a series of roundtable discussions on Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites with the Bipartisan Policy Center. Out of that work, Wireless Future and ICLE created the LEO Satellite Forum. Over the past year, Wireless Future and ICLE brought together stakeholders with industry, public policy, academic, and regulatory expertise to explore the challenges facing the development and deployment of LEO satellites for universal connectivity. In numerous meetings since January 2025, this LEO Policy Working Group has focused on (1) promoting a sustainable competition environment; (2) improving LEO satellite coexistence and performance through updated licensing and spectrum sharing frameworks; and (3) integrating LEO satellites into digital equity and broadband access initiatives. Our goal is to promote a better understanding of these challenges so that policymakers can facilitate LEO satellite innovation and solutions to current connectivity gaps. Working group members are listed below.

Michael Calabrese (co-chair)
Director of Wireless Future, New America

Kristian Stout (co-chair)
Director of Innovation Policy, International Center for Law & Economics

Jeffrey J. Carlisle
Managing Member, Lerman Senter PLLC
Former Chief of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau

Patricia Cooper
President & Founder, Constellation Advisory LLC
Former VP, SpaceX and President, Satellite Industry Association

Harold Feld
Senior Vice President, Public Knowledge

Paul Garnett
Chief Executive Officer, Vernonburg Group
Former Assistant Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA–The Wireless Association

Mark Jamison
Gerald Gunter Professor, University of Florida, and Director, Public Utility Research Center and Digital Markets Initiative

Joe Kane
Director, Broadband and Spectrum Policy, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

J. Armand Musey
President and Founder, Summit Ridge Group, LLC

Michael O’Rielly
Strategic Advisor and Advocate, MPORielly Consulting LLC
Former FCC Commissioner

Jon Peha
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Former Chief Technologist, FCC, and Assistant Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Ruth Pritchard-Kelly
Principal, RPK Advisors, LLC
Former Senior Advisor for Regulatory and Space Policy, OneWeb

David Reed
Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Boulder
Former telecommunications policy analyst in Office of Plans and Policy, FCC

Nicol Turner Lee
Director, Center for Technology Innovation and Senior Fellow of Governance Studies, Brookings Institution

Editorial note: Affiliations are for informational purposes only. The views expressed in this report reflect the views of the members in their individual capacity and not those of any organization.