Strategic Advisory for Space & SATCOM
ABOUT
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Providence Access Company is a founder-led strategic advisory practice founded and led by Andrew D’Uva, advising space and satellite leadership teams on government services strategy, regulatory architecture, security and compliance governance, and space sustainability.
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Engagements center on decision-quality counsel—helping senior leaders navigate high-stakes policy, compliance, and mission-integration challenges across U.S. national security and allied contexts. As needed, Providence Access draws on a small network of experienced specialists to support discrete client objectives.
Through client engagements involving the Department of Defense, the U.S. Space Force, the Department of State, and other national security stakeholders, we help space and satellite providers position offerings effectively, perform reliably, and manage risk in the U.S. government satellite services marketplace.
We provide executive-level counsel on government services positioning; regulatory, compliance, and cybersecurity governance; and U.S. and international public policy and regulatory strategy. Work spans constellation and service conception, satellite communications and remote sensing, on-orbit safety of flight, space traffic coordination, stakeholder alignment, and policy and regulatory developments impacting the space sector.
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We provide strategic advisory, analysis, and preparation for stakeholder and congressional engagement. We do not provide registered lobbying services.
We bring decades of experience in the international space community, with practical insight into the risks and opportunities shaping commercial and national security missions.
Leadership
Andrew D'Uva
Founder & Principal Advisor
Andrew D’Uva is Founder and Principal Advisor of Providence Access Company, providing strategic policy, regulatory, and mission-integration counsel at the intersection of space systems, satellite communications, cybersecurity governance, and U.S. national security missions. For nearly three decades, he has supported international commercial satellite and telecommunications organizations across regulatory, legal, operational, and business disciplines, with a current emphasis on government services, space sustainability, and trusted information sharing.
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D’Uva led efforts to develop the legal and data-sharing frameworks of the Space Data Association (SDA)—an operator-driven non-profit focused on improving spaceflight safety through responsible information sharing—and has served as SDA’s Strategy and Policy Advisor to its Board since SDA’s founding in 2009. In 2014, he supported the establishment of the Department of Defense Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) at the Joint Space Operations Center, helping strengthen operational alignment between commercial operators and U.S. government space operations; he continues to support industry collaboration with the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC). He coordinates the SATCOM Industry Group (SIG), focused on improving communications capabilities in support of national security missions, and serves as U.S. industry chair of the Commercial Space Cryptographic Cybersecurity Working Group (CSCCWG) supporting collaboration with the National Security Agency and U.S. Space Force.
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Earlier in his career, he was a founding executive of global satellite operator New Skies Satellites (now SES), leading regulatory and corporate affairs, and practiced telecommunications, media, and public markets law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, representing clients before the FCC, ITU, and DOJ. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (A.B.) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), and has provided invited testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on spaceflight safety and civil SSA transition.
Areas of Practice
The United States Government is among the world’s largest users of satellite-enabled capabilities—spanning narrowband, space segment access, managed communications services, and remote sensing services. Entering and sustaining success in this market requires more than a compelling product: suppliers must align business models to procurement realities, establish credibility as a mission partner, and maintain an end-to-end cybersecurity posture across satellites, ground infrastructure, and network/service operations throughout the system lifecycle.
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For U.S. operations of non-U.S. firms, additional considerations may apply, including export controls and national security requirements affecting corporate structure, governance, and information flows. In many cases, companies must implement mitigations to address foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) that would otherwise preclude eligibility for sensitive or classified work.
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Providence Access provides executive-level advisory to satellite operators and communications and sensing providers, equipment manufacturers, integrators, teleports, and network/service providers. Engagements focus on strategy, regulatory architecture, security and compliance governance, and mission integration—helping leadership teams make sound decisions, reduce risk, and position offerings for trusted participation in U.S. and allied national security missions.
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Tel: +1 202-794-6200
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Arlington, VA 22209-2490