President Obama announces plans to cut about $400 billion from the defense budget by 2023 as part of an effort to reduce the overall federal deficit by $4 trillion. This comes on top of the $400 million defense reduction identified over the past two years in current and future defense spending.
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
