As DoD shifts $50B in spending, can an old playbook protect legacy programs?
Running through potential winners and losers under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to shift $50 billion towards different priorities in fiscal 2026.
Space Force
Saltzman bars Space Force staff from Mitchell Institute events
The order follows a Mitchell report criticizing Saltzman’s overarching theory of space power, dubbed “Competitive Endurance,” as too focused on defensive operations rather than offensive actions.
DoD needs to clarify Space Force roles and missions: Mitchell workshop
The new report cautions the Space Force against an “over reliance” on commercial capabilities and worries that Space Force is not concentrating enough on the need to win future space conflicts not simply “endure” attacks.
In response to Viasat suit, SDA will recompete 10-satellite award to Tyvak
The court filings do not provide a proposed schedule for the new bid process, but do reveal that it will be managed by officials who were not involved in overseeing the original contract awards.
Iron Dome America Is Not a Threat to Peace
Recently, opponents of missile defenses published editorials in several outlets accusing the Trump administration of “conjuring” up an “arms race” that will severely damage “strategic stability by proposing an Iron Dome for America. This view is ill informed at best and severely dangerous at worst. There are several reasons this is true in the great […]
Iron Dome America Is Not a Threat to Peace was originally published on Global Security Review.
Congressional Haggling Jeopardizes the US Space Force FY 2025 Budget
The US Space Force, if judged by inflation-adjusted funding in the fiscal year (FY) 2024 and 2025 budgets, is showing signs of decline. The Biden administration’s FY 2025 request of $29.6 billion, makes up about 3.5 percent of the Department of Defense’s total budget request. Oddly, the FY 2025 request is the first in which […]
Congressional Haggling Jeopardizes the US Space Force FY 2025 Budget was originally published on Global Security Review.
Space Guard Opponents Seek Unraveling of Constitution’s National Defense Framework
Since the establishment of the United States Space Force in 2019, many in the federal defense establishment have aggressively fought to prevent the establishment of the Space National Guard. The reasons are numerous. In 2020 there was a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that claimed a Space National Guard component would be enormously expensive and […]
Space Guard Opponents Seek Unraveling of Constitution’s National Defense Framework was originally published on Global Security Review.
Turning 4, the Space Force’s favorite word is ‘more’: 2024 Preview
“And so I think, as you see new missions come on, you can presume that that means more Guardians to perform those missions, and we’ll have to adjust the strength going up,” said CSO Gen. Chance Saltzman.
Two things the Space Force needs from Congress – and one thing it definitely doesn’t
In this op-ed, Todd Harrison dives into what the Space Forces needs in the 2024 NDAA, and what it doesn’t, to continue its maturing as the newest military service.
U.S. Air Force X-37B Spaceplane To Launch On A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket On December 7
X-37B Encapsulated
Featuring the United States Space Force (USSF) logo for the first time, the encapsulated X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle for the USSF-52 Mission. (Courtesy photo from Boeing)
Space.com: SpaceX will launch the Space Force’s mysteri…