Gen. Michael Guetlein

SASC Dems skeptical of Golden Dome price, feasibility

“We need a lot more information before we make decisions to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.

Space Force eyes ‘novel’ development tools for Golden Dome space-based interceptors

Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Pentagon Golden Dome czar, said on Tuesday that the "real technical challenge" for the effort will be building space-based interceptors to knock down enemy missiles in their boost phase.

Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175 billion, will be led by Space Force’s Guetlein

President Donald Trump said the project to develop a missile defense shield should be "fully operational" before the end of his term, and claimed Canada has asked to join the project.

5 Chinese satellites practiced ‘dogfighting’ in space, Space Force says

Space Force leaders are sharpening their rhetorical swords regarding the service's need to build space warfighting chops.

What ‘really’ worries the head of the Space Development Agency

Derek Tournear said he's concerned about cybersecurity and supply chain, and especially where they overlap: foreign-written software.

Space Force vice wants sats to track aircraft by early 2030s

One of the key challenges for tracking enemy aircraft from space is that airplanes and drones move much faster than tanks, trucks and ships; confounded by the fact that satellites themselves also move around the Earth extremely fast.

Space Force sees potential value from DoC commercial sat tracking data

"I would imagine that as Department of Commerce continues to mature this concept, we will definitely want to take advantage of what they're doing," said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein.

How (not) to reorganize the Air Force

After a top Air Force official strongly hinted at coming changes to the Air Force's structure, Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin warn that one particular option would be bad news for America's nuclear readiness.

To deter China, Space Force acquisition command focusing on networks, AI/ML and ‘dynamic’ ops

"I don't care what it takes to get after the threat. That's really the cultural change that we're embarking upon," SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association's inaugural Spacepower conference.

‘Huge change’ afoot? Air Force apparently weighing major command structure revamp

A senior Space Force official said the Air Force was getting "rid" of the current structure as part of a great power reoptimization, but later walked back his comments as "not concrete."

US, allies struggle to find ‘collaborative’ space development projects

Air Marshall Harvey Smyth, UK Air and Space Commander, suggested that one way to move forward might be to find a mutually desired "capability set" and pursue it under a joint program along the lines of the F-35.

Along with new office, Space Force plots new funding pot for commercial buys by 2025

Space Systems Command's new Commercial Space Marketplace for Innovation and Collaboration (COSMIC) facility in Chantilly, Virg., will serve as the "physical headquarters" for the SSC Commercial Space Office.

In Space, baby steps and a ponderous ‘pivot’: 2022 in Review

For the newest military arm, this year saw it plant the seeds for important changes in everything from strategy to acquisition.

24 hours from ‘go’: Next Space Force ‘responsive launch’ experiment aims to loft satellite in a hurry

"We have spent a lot of time admiring the problem of how to be responsive in space," SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein said. "We are done admiring the problem and we are getting after the combatant commands' need to truly protect and defend the peaceful use of space."