Industry and NASA representatives have offered their insights into the importance of ACTS and the government-industry-academic collaboration that was so important to its development. The following remarks were made at the ACTS Conference 2000, held in Cleveland together with the Sixth Ka Band Utilization Conference. The occasion of this conference was the termination of the ACTS experiment program under NASA sponsorship.

Gerald Barna, the acting Deputy Director of the NASA Glenn Research Center

Joseph Rothenberg, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight

Dr. Tom Brackey, Executive Director, Technical Operations for External Affairs and Chief Scientist, Hughes Space and Communications Company

Edward Fitzpatrick, Vice President of Hughes Network Systems

Jeffrey Grant, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Astrolink

Edward Ashford, Corporate Development Unit Leader at SES-ASTRA