"In the end, what we're really going to have to figure out here is: what needs to change? Is it policies? Is it authorities? Is it processes? Is it funding? Is it purely just advocacy and communication?" said National Space Council Director Chirag Parikh.
The "Venn diagram ... of civil, commercial, and national security is becoming more and more overlapped," said Chirag Parikh, executive secretary of the National Space Council.
As NATO and European governments accelerate investment in space-based intelligence, decision advantage will depend on how quickly sovereign and commercial capabilities can be fused into a trusted operational picture.
"Just as we saw the value of commercial space systems in the Ukraine crisis, we've also seen the potential vulnerability and [the possibility] of commercial capabilities to be attacked as well. And so we've got to consider commercial capabilities and how they operate not just now, but also in the time of crisis," Chirag Parikh, executive secretary of the National Space Council, said today.
"The space industry is evolving, expanding at an extremely fast pace. As new players come on board the number of risk rises but so does the number of opportunities," said French Ambassador Philippe Étienne.
Addressing climate change, and setting norms of behavior are among the focus areas for Biden administration space policy.
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