Dr. John Valasek, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory, was an invited Firestarter Presenter on the topic of Payload & Mission Management for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Missions. Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, the Autonomy for Hypersonics (A4H) Field Day was held on 18-19 April 2019, Albuquerque, NM. The A4H Mission Campaign seeks to conduct groundbreaking autonomy research in collaboration with academic and industrial partners to address critical national security issues.