As the Space Force nears its fifth birthday, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman used his appearance at the Spacepower Conference here to forcefully argue his service is needed for warfighting, not merely support functions.
Gen. B. Chance Saltzman
At the most fundamental level, this requires the Space Force to have assured access to space. The Space Force must retain a diverse stable of launch providers, while expanding options for launch locations.
The Air Force has the F-22 Raptor. The Navy has the USS Eisenhower, officially CVN-69. The Army has the M2 Bradley. Now the Space Force is making moves to implement its own naming and designation system for its satellites, radars, and other weapons, and it wants ...
The proliferation of commercial satellites is changing the character of war, a panel of military experts said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 18.
he Space Force has established a task force to envision its forthcoming Space Futures Command, but plans are still murky and the new command is still months from standing up.
The Space Force used commercial satellite services to support the withdrawal of U.S. forces from air bases in Niger this summer, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said Sept. 17—a key milestone in the service’s efforts to integrate commercial capabilities into operations and ...
Less than nine months after standing up, U.S. Space Forces Europe and Africa got a new commander Aug. 13 when Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton succeeded Col. Max Lantz—an especially noteworthy move for given the Space Force’s small pool of general officers and the service’s efforts ...
WORLD: Personnel: Space Force Adjusts Readiness Model.
Today threats in space are significant. Increasingly, U.S. space capabilities are contested, as Russia and China pursue threatening capabilities to challenge what was once U.S. dominance and have become near parity.
Russia’s lack of conventional military superiority when compared to the U.S. and the rest of NATO is driving its development of “asymmetric” capabilities like the nuclear anti-satellite weapon that generated headlines earlier this year, multiple Pentagon officials said this week.
In an “unprecedented" move, the Space Force has welcomed its first foreign officer to join the service’s top staff. Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman appointed Air Marshal Paul Godfrey as Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, a brand ...
About a month after the top Guardian was spotted wearing a unique black mess dress uniform to an event in Los Angeles, Calif., a Department of the Air Force spokesperson said the service is still working on its official mess dress design.
