Let’s face it, relationships between the hacker / researcher community and the aerospace sector in the past – haven’t been great. 20 months ago, a passionate voluntary group of hackers, pilots, engineers, policy wonks and others, decided to do something about it and start creating a community that would foster trusted relationships across all those interested in aviation cyber security. Here we are at our second DEF CON in the Aerospace Village with a rapidly growing hacker / researcher community supported by the aerospace industry, USAF, DDS, CISA, academia, regulators and more including the first satellite CTF.A short intro to the Aerospace Village tells the story of how and why we do this, how we got here and where we are going.Then we are honoured to have two guest speakers where we hear from Dir CISA, Chris Krebs, who will be chatting about all things CISA and Aerospace Cybersecurity, after which things are rounded off by Dr Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics who will talk to the Space Security Challenge – Hack-a-Sat and their support for the Aerospace Village and its vision.