The U.S. military’s top cyber commander last Friday hinted that his forces need to grow, telling a House panel that he faces new missions, the continued expansion of cyber threats, and constant cyber operations by America’s adversaries below levels of actual combat. Gen. Paul Nakasone, ...
Space
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is undertaking a space-based ground moving target indicator (GMTI) program and looking to move into tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions that complement intelligence community efforts, but the new USSF focus areas are not to conflict ...
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) needs a service acquisition executive (SAE) now, the USSF Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond said on May 12. The fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), P.L. 116-92, established the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 20, 2019, but Section ...
Acting Air Force Secretary Recommends Legislative Change to Permit Space SAE Before Oct. 1 Next Year
The fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), P.L. 116-92, established the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 20, 2019, but the law had some curious language in Section 957 that said that the new assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration would not become the ...
Proposals to ban anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons would face hurdles in becoming U.S. policy, according to a DoD official’s testimony on May 5th before a joint hearing of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) strategic panel and the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s international ...
The chief of the National Guard Bureau, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, told the House Appropriations Committee’s defense (HAC-D) panel on May 4 that “the establishment of a Space National Guard” is one of his top priorities and suggested that such a force would help the National Guard ...