Once again, lawmakers are poised to slap down the Pentagon’s attempt to kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine program. The House Armed Services Committee air-land panel has recommended cutting one aircraft and reducing the Air Force and Navy F-35 research and development accounts by $125 million each to fund a second alternate engine in the 2008 defense authorization bill. Panel chairman Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) recognizes that “cost pressures” led the Pentagon to terminate the program, but he maintains that “this mark recognizes the potential benefits of a competitive program.”
When the Space Force discusses the cyber threats faced by the service or the commercial satellite providers it uses, it typically frames the issue as a nation-state one. But for cyber defenders in the commercial space sector responsible for day-to-day operations, the reality is rather different: Like other providers of…
