Christian Bréant, Director of Research and Technology of the European Defence Agency (EDA), Michel Courtois, Director of Technical and Quality Management of the European Space Agency (ESA) , Dr. Paul Weissenberg, Director of Aerospace, GMES, Security and Defence of the Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission (EC), and members of the EC-ESA-EDA Joint Task Force on Critical Space Technologies for European Strategic Non-Dependence at the ESA Pavilion, Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, 17 June 2009.