From Congressman Steve Buyer’s perspective, the recent get together he had with representatives of four veterans’ service organizations produced a “good and positive session.” The Indiana Republican acknowledged, though, that the parties “did not agree on all topics.” VSOs and even some other lawmakers have criticized Buyer for changing the timing of their testimony on the budget for Veterans Affairs. Buyer, who is chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, met with The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US, Disabled Veterans of America, and AMVETS.
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.