pRESS / publicity

2023

NOVEMBER 2023

Federal News Network article, available here. Excerpt:

There could also be challenges to the adoption of digital twins like overselling and overdesigning. For example, continually adding bells and whistles and trying news scenarios and simulations to an item in a digital twin state. “Speaking from the DARPA perspective, it is so much more useful when somebody pitches me on a digital system that can iterate on a weekly basis and answer the question to just a second order level, because what I’m looking for is the big bet,” said Mikey Nayak, a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office at DARPA.

2022

AUGUST 2022

Selected as a member of the AFRL Inspire 2022 cohort, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the US Air Force.

Delivered a keynote address: “Around the World in 80 Steps” (invited talk)
Link to YouTube video

This talk was featured in a series of articles:

Air Force Research Laboratory, “AFRL professionals share inspirational talks during live-streamed event”. Link here.

Also featured by Air Force Medicine (link here) and Air Force Materiel Command (link here).

Air Force Research Laboratory, “AFRL Inspire event with TEDx-style talks to be live-streamed”. Link here.

Also featured by Dayton Daily News (link here) and SpaceWar (link here).

Rome Daily Sentinel, “AFRL Inspire program to livestream on Tuesday”. Link here.

Darik News, “AFRL Inspire TEDx-style talk live-streamed August 23”. Link here.

Also featured by 6Park News (link here) and LA Daily Post (link here)..

The AFRL Inspire 2022 cohort with the AFRL Commander, Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle — *AFRL Inspire 2022 cohort with AFRL/CC, Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle*

July 2021

2021

Featured in a series of articles about the Air Force Test Center’s “Orange Flag” initiative.

The Drive, “War Games in California and Florida linked to test massive kill web”. Link here.
Air Force Test Center Press Release, “Test Flag Enterprise integrates autonomy into Orange Flag”. Link here.
Aerotech News, “Test Flag Enterprise: Autonomy and Emerald Flag Collaboration”. Link here.

Picture from “The Drive” War Zone article. — *Picture from “The Drive” War Zone* *article*.

Picture from Wright-Patterson AFB Press Release. — *Picture from Wright-Patterson AFB* *Press Release*.

OCTOBER 2020

2020

“Cosmic Conversations” with the Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences
A Geological Tour of Jovian Moon Europa (invited talk)
Link to YouTube video

2019

APRIL 2019

“What we learn through this project could change the way we think about our solar system.”

Lift magazine profile
“Science at the South Pole”

“A constellation of CubeSats gives you some congregant capability that one big system doesn’t.”

— Michael Nayak, OneZero Medium 2019

APRIL 2019

Quoted as a small satellite expert.

“Startups took over the Earth, and now they’re headed to space”
Published April 25, 2018 on Medium

MARCH 2019

Air Force Research Laboratory press release, March 2019
Profile on my time at the South Pole supporting
LANDIT: Long-Duration Antarctic Night and Daytime Imaging Telescope

AFRL press release, Mar 9, 2019
”New AFRL podcast goes behind the scenes”

Michael Nayak talks about AFRL basic research on space situational awareness at the South Pole, windsurfing in Antarctica, and his current work “back-seating” in supersonic airplanes as an experimental flight test engineer.