Gen. John D.W. Corley, the Air Force vice chief of staff, believes that technology is indispensable to defeating terrorism, shaping the decisions of other countries, and preventing non-state actors from using weapons of mass destruction, reports the Montgomery Advertiser in covering the Air Force Information Technology Conference in Montgomery, Ala. According to the newspaper, “thousands of industry players” absorbed the message.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.