"I look forward to working with [Air Force] Secretary Meink and the service to make sure the language in the NDAA is fully implemented," Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., told Breaking Defense today.
On day three of AFA, a senior Air Force official acknowledged the US didn't see Israel's strike in Qatar coming.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Things that go into orbit led the news at day two of the AFA conference.
The service needs to better detect and track on-orbit activity, and find objects that have been "lost" to its surveillance network, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said.
"Space is a warfighting domain, not a collection of supporting activities. In conflict, space will be a contested environment. We are the military Service dedicated to fighting in it," Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman writes in a forward to the new Space Force Doctrine Document 1.
"[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.
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The interview signalled a rapprochement between Saltzman and the institute, following his Feb. 20 ban on engagement with Mitchell by Space Force personnel.
The chief of space operations said the Space Force is examining how to best invest in six categories of counter-space weapons, because China is doing the same.
“I think the question is whether this is a temporary thing, or whether it becomes permanent,” one industry official told Breaking Defense.
The order follows a Mitchell report criticizing Saltzman's overarching theory of space power, dubbed "Competitive Endurance," as too focused on defensive operations rather than offensive actions.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
The new report cautions the Space Force against an "over reliance" on commercial capabilities and worries that Space Force is not concentrating enough on the need to win future space conflicts not simply "endure" attacks.
In an attempt to spur the Space Force to cough up more people, the House and Senate Intelligence committees have mandated quarterly reports by the Director of National Intelligence on whether DoD is meeting its commitment to provide uniformed personnel to NRO.
"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."
UK Air Marshal Paul Godfrey told the Center for Strategic and International Studies that his remit includes ensuring that there are clear "touch points" for allies and partners to interact with the nascent Space Force Futures Command.