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.
Gene Smith, Former POW and AFA Chair, Dies at 91
Jan. 19, 2026
Lt. Col. Richard “Gene” Smith, who overcame five and a half years as a prisoner of war in the notorious Hanoi Hilton from 1967 until 1973, died Jan. 16. He was one day short of his 91st birthday.
