The Biden administration is proposing new actions designed to confront the proliferation of space traffic and debris as Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested and contested. The government launched two efforts that it hopes will lead to a safer environment for the nation's military and commercial ...
Chief of Space Operations
The Space Force doesn’t just need a more resilient satellite architecture, the service’s potential new leader told lawmakers Sept. 13—it needs more and better ways to test and train its Guardians for the future of a contested domain.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond offered some of his early observations on the role of space activities in the war in Ukraine. After nearly a three-year pandemic hiatus, many of the world's top national security and foreign affairs officials gathered in ...
Addressing members from every service earning advanced degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School on June 17, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond emphasized the importance of space to the Joint Force and in the new National Defense Strategy. Raymond, speaking at the NPS ...
In this Q&A with Air Force Magazine, Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond reflects on what it means to be the first Chief of Space Operations and the Space Force’s very first member, as well as the future of the new service and of space itself.
Guardians and Airmen innovate and renovate, doubling the rate of launch at Cape Canaveral.
America may be on the verge of promoting its first woman to lead a military service. The Air Force has the inside track.
The Department of the Air Force’s recently released reports on interpersonal violence and on gender, race, and ethnic disparities are linked to the issue of suicide in the military, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a Facebook town hall Nov. 18.
The Department of the Air Force described a plan to break out space policy from the as-yet unnamed space acquisitions chief.
The wife of the Space Force’s first Chief of Space Operations is opening up channels of communication to try to connect with the loved ones of members, including an email newsletter to which she hopes to add subscribers. The newness of the Space Force provides ...
Watch video of Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond speaking at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Convention on Sept. 21.
The incorporation of 350 new Guardians into the Space Force and the transfer of units and missions, including satellite communications capabilities from the Navy and Army, will be delayed if a defense budget does not pass by Sept. 30, Space Force leaders indicated. Space Force ...
