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Brig. Gen. Ed Barker gave reporters a look ahead on his fiscal 2024, 2025 and 2026 priorities.
While the new Russian satellite didn't get super close to any others, its behavior "could be considered unfriendly," said Slingshot's Audrey Schaffer, who until recently served as the director of space policy at the National Security Council.
"So I think [the concept of integration is] so simple and yet so hard to achieve," Northrop VP Walsmith said. "You need to be able to integrate applications, whether they're your own or someone else's, with ease and simplicity. It is easy to say. It's very hard to engineer."
"In terms of weapons systems, we have computers on wings, at sea, and on land. We don't think of [weapons systems] that way, but none of them work without computers," NSA's Joyce said.
The Taliban now faces a decision: Ban the internet as the group did during its first rule, while hindering its propaganda windfall and other online activities, or leave the country's networks intact, allowing an avenue for continued US electronic surveillance.
China has launched 29 satellites through Sept. 30, compared 27 launched by the US. The US has far more satellites already in space.