By Amanda Miller, Published by Airforce Magazine, 2 January 2022 Airmen recite the oath of office before transferring into the Space Force during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 15, 2020. About 300 Airmen at bases worldwide, including 22 in the audience, transferred during the ceremony. Air Force photo by
By Theresa Hitchens, Pubished by Breaking Defense, 28 December 2021 US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust. WASHINGTON: Saying it
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 22 December 2021 GAO said information provided to Congress on the Space C2 program makes it difficult to assess its progress WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office issued another report critical of a U.S. Space Force program that is developing software tools to track
By Breaking Defense, 20 December 2021 While the GEO-based Space-Based Infrared System continues to serve US missile-warning needs, emerging threats and an increasingly contested space environment may benefit from a layered architecture in multiple orbits. There are several major trends today in space-based early warning/missile warning. The first is the
By Paul Robinson, Published by Russia Today, 18 November 2021 News that Russia has tested an anti-satellite missile has sparked concern for spacecraft and, more worryingly, highlighted the lack of international treaties regulating space weapons, meaning the cosmos is becoming a battleground. While the US currently opposes controls on orbital
By Paul Mason, Published by The New Statesman, 17 November 2021 The major powers are engaged in an unprecedented expansion of military power in space, but it remains dangerously covert, opaque and unregulated. On 15 November astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to “take refuge” in the spacecraft
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By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 17 September 2021 A ship in the Pacific Ocean carrying a high-power laser takes aim at a U.S. spy satellite, blinding its sensors and denying the United States critical eyes in the sky. This is one scenario that military officials and civilian leaders fear
By Walter Pincus, Published by The Cipher Brief, 14 September 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. Pincus spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown
