According to Lt. Gen. Robert Elder Jr., the commander of 8th Air Force who also is charged with standing up the Air Force’s new Cyber Command, the service will create an online Global Cyberspace Innovation Center by this summer. Government Computer News reported the news from a Washington, D.C.-based event hosted by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Northern Virginia Chapter. Elder described the online center as a forum for airmen, academia, and industry to “stimulate technology development.”
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.
