Speaking at the AFA Los Angeles Space Symposium Friday, Maj. Gen. Roger Burg covered, briefly, the sensitive topic of providing offensive capabilities to defend national security assets in space. Burg, who is director of strategic security for USAF air and space operations at the Pentagon, says there are three components that are key to defending space: “maintaining strong situational awareness, providing defensive counter space abilities, and having offensive counterspace abilities.” Offensive abilities could mean many things, however, such as being able to deny the enemy the “ability to use space” and challenge certain assets, he added. Burg recalled an instance when his deputy squadron commander at Schriever AFB, Colo., called him up to tell him about a near-collision of two billion dollar satellites—which at the time were within eight miles of each other.
U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles have roared out of Barnes Air National Guard Base, Mass., for the last time. The 104th Fighter Wing’s last three F-15Cs departed the base Oct. 23 for the “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., ending the aircraft's era on the frontlines of homeland defense.
