Acknowledgments
This research paper has been produced with support from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF). We are grateful to the SPF for the generous financial, practical and intellectual support in 2015–16 that enabled the research for and writing of this paper. Special thanks are due to Risa Arai and Tetsuya Hiroshima of the SPF for all their assistance. We thank the participants in the Chatham House roundtables who gave generously of their time and expertise and the peer reviewers of the paper.
Thanks also go to Tobby Simon and his team at the Synergia Foundation in Bangalore, India, who generously hosted a high-level roundtable at which the experts provided further high-quality information. The meeting was co-chaired by Dr Raji Rajagopalan of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in Delhi. And we also thank Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) for its continued participation in this research stream at Chatham House.
We are immensely grateful to Paul Febvre, Chief Technology Officer at Satellite Applications Catapult for his assistance with technical aspects of the paper, and to Margaret May for her work in editing the text. Henry Dodd deserves a special mention for his note-taking and support throughout the project. Thanks are also to Hannah Bryce and Nilza Amal of the International Security Department at Chatham House, and to Jo Maher of the publications team, for all their support.