The realities of funding and the need to disseminate what the space ISR infrastructure gathers means that “integration of activities in space becomes increasingly important” in the future, Air Force Undersecretary Ron Sega told reporters yesterday. Sega sees an increasingly blurred line “going forward” between “white and black”—open and secret—space activities.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
