Bill Staus

Bill Staus is Partner at Elara Nova focused on creating unparalleled value for our clients, and the warfighters, allies, and partners they serve, whether they are operating in, delivering solutions to, or leveraging capabilities from space. Elara Nova provides decades of government and private sector experience in space strategy, operations, acquisition, engineering, technology and policy — our diverse and extensive team brings vital insights and powerful national and international connections across the defense, intelligence, civil, and commercial space sectors to enable our clients’ success.

Bill brings over 30 years of experience across the defense industry and U.S. Air Force. Most recently, Bill was a Senior Vice President of the Space Engineering Division at Parsons Corporation. Prior to that, Bill was the Senior Director for the Space Battle Management business area at Raytheon Technologies. Bill was a Director of Programs at Sierra Nevada Corporation, leading programs and pursuits with DoD customers across multi-domain, C2 and Operations and Sustainment arenas.

Previously, he was a Senior Program Manager for General Dynamics and led a classified, $352M next-generation USSF space ground C2 development for the National Space Defense Center. Bill served in the U.S. Air Force from 1997-2017. He had a successful active-duty Air Force career, with assignments as Senior Portfolio Manager at Air Force TENCAP, Program Element Monitor & Program Manager with the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and held several positions with the National Reconnaissance Office.