Anthony Lai has been a technical leader in open architecture system implementation in mission critical space and defense airborne applications for over three decades, and most recently at Frontgrade Technologies as the Chief System Architect for US space data routing systems.  From defense airborne data loaders applications, Mr. Lai has executed R&D projects in developing and qualifying avionics.  Mr. Lai has led and enabled system development for over 30+ NASA, commercial, human-rated and DoD space missions in the past decades from requirements definitions to launch campaigns and mission operations to Earth-orbiting, lunar and Mars environments.