“[W]e restrain ourselves from doing what is needful to avoid creating improper perceptions of ‘weaponizing space.’ In reality, space has been weaponized for at least two decades, and our slowness to absorb that reality has held back our progress,” Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
By Theresa HitchensStrengthening the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain
Matt Magaña, president, Defense & National Security, Voyager Technologies explains how we must reshape the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain to make it stronger, smarter and more resilient.
The interview signalled a rapprochement between Saltzman and the institute, following his Feb. 20 ban on engagement with Mitchell by Space Force personnel.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Force leaders are sharpening their rhetorical swords regarding the service’s need to build space warfighting chops.
By Theresa Hitchens
Elsewhere, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said his top priority is “space control,” a term that for many years was verboten at the Pentagon.
By Michael Marrow
“You are warfighters, whether you carry a gun or not,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told Guardians on Dec. 10. “You are trained and expected to carry out offensive and defensive actions against military forces of other countries.”
By Theresa Hitchens
A recent memo, obtained by Breaking Defense, has raised concerns that inconsistencies with both joint doctrine and DoD budget organization could create confusion within combatant commands and Congress.
By Theresa Hitchens
Orbital power: Shaping national security from space
Northrop Grumman is one of the only companies with expertise and capability to design, build and operate systems across an array of orbits.
The new version of Joint Publication 3-14 explains that “offensive and defensive space operations” are supported primarily by “direct capabilities” — that is, “fires that impact an adversary.”
By Theresa Hitchens
John Plumb noted that his office now is working directly with the IC “on reducing some of those classification issues to the point where we can share” information with allies and partners to enable collaborative operations.
By Theresa HitchensMissing in the national security space conversation, says Aerospace Corporation’s Russ Rumbaugh, is how space operations can and should fit with diplomacy and foreign policy. Instead, he said, the debate is solely about “how do I win the war I see.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The video will give you an idea of what may become the combat center of the future, but one dispersed around the world, instead of being concentrated in a few hyper-secure (but potentially targetable) facilities.
By Colin Clark
PENTAGON: The big news on the 2018 Air Force space budget: it grew at least $1.5 billion. That’s a large increase considering the total budget request is $10.4 billion. For perspective, the entire Defense Department space budget last year — known as the space Major Force Program — was $22 billion. The Air Force oversees the vast…
By Colin Clark
PENTAGON: It poses one of the thorniest problems for the United States national security establishment: how to get the nation’s spy agencies, especially the secretive National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the military to work together when someone attacks US spy and military satellites. To offer some clarity on the way ahead for this relationship, Deputy Defense Secretary…
By Colin Clark
WASHINGTON: The US Army has the most disruptive space technology right now. So says the head of Air Force Space Command, Gen. John Hyten. Hyten was asked about the technology in the space domain at breakfast this morning by my colleague Mark Thompson of Time magazine. Now in the good old days, the head of Space…
By Colin Clark
“It’s time for America to put real investments into space weapons capable of targeting earth-bound targets,” writes Christopher Stone in this op-ed.
By Christopher Stone