AURORA, Colo.—Space superiority emerged as a major theme of the 2025 AFA Warfare Symposium, so Air & Space Forces Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tobias Naegele spoke with retired Space Force Col. Jennifer Reeves, now a senior fellow with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, to go deeper on the significance of that theme and what it means for the Space Force.
The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to invest in manufacturing capacity for the space industrial base, awarding multiple contracts in recent weeks to companies who supply key space components and subsystems as well as firms with innovative manufacturing technology that’s ready to scale.