DUANE DIER
Principal & Cofounder
Strativus Group

Architecture, Design and Engineering

Duane Dier is Principal & Cofounder of Strativus Group, a people-focused aerospace leadership company formed in 2021. Strativus Group works to make aerospace engineering projects successful by making their people successful.

Prior to founding Strativus Group, Duane’s career spanned government and commercial satellite development & operations, from Phase A studies to disposal in orbit. Most recently, Duane served as program manager at Millennium Space Systems for the Wide Field of View Testbed GEO OPIR program as well as several restricted missions in emerging mission areas.

Prior to Millennium Space Systems, Duane served as Principal Engineer at DIRECTV, procuring, launching, and operating a fleet of high-power geostationary broadcast satellites covering nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. In this role, Duane managed satellite development contracts with Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman), Space Systems Loral (now Maxar Technologies), and Airbus Defence & Space, including ground infrastructure elements.

Duane’s career began at Boeing Satellite Systems, where he spent 10 years in roles ranging from department management of GN&C and mission analysis engineers, systems engineering, mission operations, integration and test, and vehicle design on commercial and government programs.