New Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne believes people must stop viewing the word “recapitalization” as synonymous with aircraft. He told Air Force journalist MSgt. Mitch Gettle earlier this week that more within the service needs recapitalization. “Where we know we have advanced technologies, we want to introduce them; where we know we have emerging missions, we want to satisfy them,” explained Wynne. Where the rubber meets the airfield for Wynne, though, is in having data upon which to base “credible decisions.”
The first Trump administration moved to relieve the Space Force of its burden to monitor and warn civilian space operators about potential space traffic hazards. But now, just as the Commerce Department’s new Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) program...