EXCLUSIVE: New Joint Force space doctrine clarifies Space Command’s ‘offensive’, ‘defensive’ ops

EXCLUSIVE: New Joint Force space doctrine clarifies Space Command’s ‘offensive’, ‘defensive’ ops
EXCLUSIVE: New Joint Force space doctrine clarifies Space Command’s ‘offensive’, ‘defensive’ ops

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.”

‘Huge, huge problem’: DoD space policy chief says over-classification harming allied advantage

‘Huge, huge problem’: DoD space policy chief says over-classification harming allied advantage
‘Huge, huge problem’: DoD space policy chief says over-classification harming allied advantage

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.

Space Force: What Is It Good For?

Missing 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.” 

EXCLUSIVE: What Multi Domain C2 May Look Like: Raytheon’s Rick Yuse

EXCLUSIVE: What Multi Domain C2 May Look Like: Raytheon’s Rick Yuse
EXCLUSIVE: What Multi Domain C2 May Look Like: Raytheon’s Rick Yuse

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.

Air Force Space Budget Up $1.5B; Teague ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ On OCX DAB Meet

Air Force Space Budget Up $1.5B; Teague ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ On OCX DAB Meet
Air Force Space Budget Up $1.5B; Teague ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ On OCX DAB Meet

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…

DepSecDef Work On The Future Of DoD-IC Space Cooperation

DepSecDef Work On The Future Of DoD-IC Space Cooperation
DepSecDef Work On The Future Of DoD-IC Space Cooperation

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…

Army Boasts Hottest Space Tech, Says Space Command

Army Boasts Hottest Space Tech, Says Space Command
Army Boasts Hottest Space Tech, Says Space Command

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…

US Commits $5B In NEW $$ To Countering Space Threats; HASC Protects It

US Commits $5B In NEW $$ To Countering Space Threats; HASC Protects It
US Commits $5B In NEW $$ To Countering Space Threats; HASC Protects It

UPDATED: HASC StratForces Moves To “Protect” Space Control; Designates Space An MFP WASHINGTON:  When the United States government writ large — the military and the Intelligence Community — thinks something is important enough to spend $5 billion in new money from existing sources that’s a strategic commitment and is worth paying very close attention to. The…

US Presses Russia, China On ASAT Tests; Space Control Spending Triples

US Presses Russia, China On ASAT Tests; Space Control Spending Triples
US Presses Russia, China On ASAT Tests; Space Control Spending Triples

COLORADO SPRINGS: The United States has tripled its spending on offensive space control and “active defense” weaponry since 2013 in the last two years. It plans to spend “a majority” of  $150-plus million pool of funding on them over the next five years, part of a broad and fast-moving shift in US space priorities. The relevant budget line rose from $9.5…

DepSecDef Work Invokes ‘Space Control;’ Analysts Fear Space War Escalation

DepSecDef Work Invokes ‘Space Control;’ Analysts Fear Space War Escalation
DepSecDef Work Invokes ‘Space Control;’ Analysts Fear Space War Escalation

COLORADO SPRINGS: Citing “increasing threats” against America’s satellites,  Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said here today that the US military “must be able to respond in an integrated, coordinated fashion” to attacks on US space assets and he used the charged term “space control” in making his argument. “While we rely heavily on space capabilities,…