About 400 space professionals participated in the Schriever IV Space Wargame run last week from Nellis AFB, Nev. The setting was 2025 as the space force attempted to “defend, augment, and replace space systems” and discover “seams in command-and-control relationships to support regional commanders,” according to an Air Force Space Command release. Col. Larry Chodzko, head of the Space Innovation and Development Center at Schriever AFB, Colo., called the effort “extremely beneficial.” He noted that the third wargame in the series led US Strategic Command “to evolve its Joint Functional Component Command structure to better serve the warfighter.”
The Pentagon is counting on Congress to navigate a legislative tightrope and pass a party-line bill to fund nearly a quarter of its $1.5 trillion budget request for fiscal 2027, including billions of dollars for top priorities like Golden Dome, the F-35, munitions, and unmanned systems. Experts and lawmakers from…