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Cybersecurity is Uniquely Critical to the Space Domain, Space Force Official Says

Cybersecurity is Uniquely Critical to the Space Domain, Space Force Official Says
Space Force Col. John Smail at CyberSatGov in November 2022. Photo: Via Satellite

The U.S. needs to be ready to defend itself in cyberspace against Russia and China’s cyber capabilities, an official with U.S. Space Force warned last week. Col. John Smail, who advises the Chief of Space Operations on the U.S. Space Force’s cyber, spectrum and warfighting communications policy, strategy, and operations, said cyber operations are “critical” to the U.S. Space Force and to secure U.S. space power. Of the warfighting domains, space is particularly intertwined with cyber, he said. In an…

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