Brig. Gen. Marcin Górka

Brigadier General Marcin Górka is the Director of Innovation Department in the Ministry of National Defense where he is responsible for military policy in the field of technology development and innovation. He represents Minister of National Defence in The National Centre for Research and Development Council. He is acting as Deputy National Armament Director on Technology, Polish representative to Steering Board in European Defence Agency in research and technology directors formula as well as NATO Science and Technology Board. He is also Polish member in Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic Board of Directors. His duties also include provision of technology advise and expertise for Ministry of National Defence in the
area of space technology development in his capacity as Minister of National Defense’s Plenipotentiary for Space.
Brigadier General Górka entered the Polish Armed Forces as an officer in 1996 after earning his MSc. Eng. in satellite navigation systems from the Military Academy of Technology in Warsaw. During his first operational assignments, he served as survey engineer, project officer and chief of section mainly introducing satellite downstream solutions to the Polish Armed Forces.
In 2003 he was directed to serve at the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (PAF) where he was responsible for overseeing capability development in the area of imagery intelligence including manned, unmanned and satellite systems. In 2005 he was appointed as Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom PAF Liaison Officer in the US CENTCOM.
After four years in this position, Brigadier General Górka was selected for the NATO Command Structure position in the Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, USA. He was an imagery intelligence SME in the Intelligence Subdivision and was responsible for developing policy level documents on the use of satellite imagery and emerging Earth observation technology for NATO.
Brigadier General Górka then served at the General Staff of the PAF where he over the period of 2010-2012 led the process of developing a long term program for application of satellite Earth observation technologies in the Polish Armed Forces. Following that he was directed to implement the program and appointed as the Imagery Intelligence Centre Commander. Over the years 2013-2018 he was responsible for the overall implementation of satellite imagery intelligence capability of the Polish Armed Forces including: provision of access to the satellite systems, development of national satellite assets, gaining operational readiness by the Imagery Intelligence Centre in the full spectrum of line of developments.
He was also responsible for international co-operation in the area of imagery intelligence including Polish participation in the EDA Multinational Space-Based Imaging System, Allied Ground Surveillance Program, negotiation and implementation of the Polish access to the Italian COSMO SkyMed System and OPTSAT3000.
In 2018 Brigadier General Marcin Górka was competitively selected and appointed by the Prime Minister as the Vice-President of the Polish Space Agency where he was responsible for defence and security related matters leading and directing programme of work of two substantive departments of the agency: the Defence Projects Department and the Military Satellite Technologies Department.