It’s impossible to overstate how central a role space plays in this whole conversation, whether you’re talking about the sensors, whether you’re talking about comms, space is going to play an extended role.
U.S. Air Force
50 years after the U.S. ended operations in support of Khmer allies, the last pilot out looks back.
We’re coming off a couple of decades of conflict in which all of our comms were essentially secured, we were not competing with a peer, and I think most of us in the room believe the next conflict will be quite different from that.
The Air Force’s primary platform for air attack against the most heavily defended targets will be the sixth-generation B-21 Raider, featuring a degree of stealth “orders of magnitude” stealthier than the B-2A Spirit it will replace.
The general impression over the past few decades that U.S. air bases were somehow sanctuaries was a historical anomaly. The threat has grown qualitatively and quantitatively.
Controlling the air domain is an imperative if the nation and U.S. allies are to be successful in future operations.
We must identify and invest in the specific applications of ABMS that provide a measurable operational advantage to our warfighters.
Our terrestrial forces … cannot survive and perform their missions if our adversary’s space-based operational support systems, especially targeting systems, are allowed to operate with impunity.
In March 2022, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall defined seven Operational Imperatives, the key areas he saw as requiring coordinated focus and investment in order to more rapidly deliver "meaningful operational capability to the warfighter.
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