Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned of putting too much emphasis on hypersonics just because China is advancing in that area, saying hypersonic missiles are better suited to China's strategy and that USAF has yet to determine the right munitions mix for the future. He also said the Advanced Battle Management System won't be achieved with a "grand solution" but instead a series of incremental steps that better match the Air Force's need to get capabilities in a timely way.

The Space Force’s top officer thinks the U.S. needs to be able to surveil cislunar space as soon as five years from now to defend U.S. interests on and around the moon. "As the nation goes further away, as the world goes further away, from the Earth, I think there's going to be a requirement to have, at least—at a minimum—some domain awareness on that environment,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond said. “I would say in … the next five to 10 years, we're going to have to have some capability to be able to support those operations.”

Dozens of programs already provide career assistance to military families. But Congress and the Pentagon can do more to study just how well those programs work and to understand other challenges facing military spouses seeking employment, advocates from the National Military Spouse Network argued Jan. 19.

NATO isn’t looking to develop any space capabilities of its own, but it does want to bolster its space support for operations and missions. Any space-based attack on an ally could trigger the alliance’s collective defense policy, it said in its first public space policy document released Jan. 17.