U.S. Space Command boss Army Gen. James H. Dickinson said his work is inseparable from that of U.S. Cyber Command but that policy must change to keep up with evolving threats in the cyber domain. A former senior Pentagon official in national security space told ...
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Air Force Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson retired July 27 as the longest-serving commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center ahead of its redesignation as Space Force’s Space Systems Command later this summer. Thompson paved the way for the standup of the Space Force ...
As military operations in space move farther from the Earth, the commander of Space Operations Command believes Guardians joining the Space Force now may eventually need to enter orbit or transit through space to make quick decisions to protect American interests in space. The Space ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to approve its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, increasing the top line of President Joe Biden’s defense budget by $25 billion while seemingly nixing the possibility of a Space National Guard. The markup was approved ...
The changing character of war; challenges in space; new plans for ABMS and GBSD; and more ...
Critical space capabilities are vulnerable to digital attack.
The Space Force is still a ways away from its own physical training guidelines, relying on the Air Force's physical fitness program while it develops its own wellness regimen. “The Space Force is currently building its first policy to capture the service’s comprehensive approach to ...
In Defense Department wargames in 2018, America lost 18 straight competitions with a peer adversary. What was more troublesome, recalled Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, was that the United States was losing the war faster in each subsequent round. Hinote, Air Force deputy chief of ...
As the last Americans leave Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command will look to space to support its continued counterterrorism mission against al-Qaida and Islamic State group remnants, U.S. Space Command confirmed to Air Force Magazine. America’s eyes in the sky will form the only intelligence picture ...
