America’s economy, military, communications networks, financial systems, and emergency services increasingly depend on space-based assets, but the infrastructure that gets those assets to orbit remains dangerously concentrated.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is operating under significant pressure. Workforce reductions, budget constraints, organizational changes, leadership transitions, and limits on contracting are affecting how the agency carries out its mission. At the same time, federal agencies face a more complex cyber threat environment.

Financial markets appear seamless: prices update in real time, trades execute instantly, and capital moves with speed and precision. But beneath that experience is a concentrated and highly interdependent infrastructure layer that makes modern markets possible.