“Clearly, this is not what Congress intended,” one former senior DoD official notes.
By Theresa HitchensHow to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
“I want to be able to identify what [the threat] is, I want to be able to attribute it to whomever is the adversary that’s taken that shot, as an example, and then, I’ve got to be able to share that information,” says Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, who heads the ISR Directorate.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The US doesn’t go anywhere alone, we don’t do it alone around the world, and we certainly don’t do it alone in space,” Lt. Gen. Nina M. Armagno, Space Force staff director said yesterday.
By Theresa Hitchens
“This issue of classification and the challenge it presents to public discussion is … part of the reason why we wrote this report. There’s nothing in the public domain like this,” says CSIS’s Kaitlyn Johnson.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The last thing Congress intended when creating the Space Force was to end up with four different space forces,” says CSIS’s Todd Harrison in a new analysis promoting a roles and missions review.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The understanding of what deterrence is has been misinterpreted, reinterpreted, run through a ringer, chopped up and turned into a hamburger. I mean, it’s just that nobody there [at DoD] seems to understand what it means exactly,” one former government official said.
By Theresa Hitchens
Instead of focusing on the pressing need to shore up vulnerabilities in current and near-term space capabilities, says one critic, Space Force and SPACECOM are “all off trying to train for how they’re going to go fight a space war.”
By Theresa Hitchens
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
“We must have fully integrated offensive and defensive operations across all of our services, as well as our partners,” says Army Gen. James Dickinson, SPACECOM commander.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Biden team wants to “start to lean away from … the pugilistic aspects” of Trump-era space policy, says one well-placed insider.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I will be very curious to see how the Space Force shakes out in the next year or so. It’s not going away but how it manifests itself could be different,” said Victoria Samson, Washington Office director for Secure World Foundation.
By Theresa Hitchens
The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military.
By Colin Clark
“As a new service, we have an opportunity here to really establish ourselves in a new way — leveraging digital technologies, and leveraging digital processes and practices in a new way,” says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting chief technology innovation officer.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Systems Command will allow “competition between disruptors and prototypers and more traditional acquisition organizations” within the Space Force, says Gen. Jay Raymond.
By Theresa Hitchens
Congressional authorizers approved some $10.4 billion in Space Force RTD&E, an almost $85 million bump from the budget request.
By Theresa Hitchens
