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Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Pentagon Golden Dome czar, said on Tuesday that the “real technical challenge” for the effort will be building space-based interceptors to knock down enemy missiles in their boost phase.
While US spending on national security space continues to dwarf that of the rest of world, non-US military space spending has jumped a whopping 76.5 percent over the last five years.
Passive sensors do not need to emit energy to find and fix targets, thus, they are harder for adversaries to find, track and target.
A spokesperson for Space Operations Command (SpOC) explained that government-led testing now will commence, but that an updated operational acceptance date “is not yet available.”
Pending Senate confirmation, Gen. Thomas Bussiere would become the Air Force’s next vice chief of staff, while Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton has been nominated to fill the Space Force’s vice role.
“If the space domain feels pain, the rest of the Joint Force will likely feel that pain as well,” said Lt. Col. Shawn Green, commander of the Space Force’s 527 Space Aggressor Squadron.
In this exclusive op-ed, Republican senators Deb Fischer and Mike Rounds lay out the new rules that will, they say, protect Pentagon spectrum needs for the next decade.
Breaking Defense has obtained a series of the Pentagon’s Unfunded Priority Lists, non-public documents that outline what the services and COCOMS would do with extra money.
The services’ unfunded requests, obtained by Breaking Defense, reflect sharp increases compared to last year.
The Trump administration’s budget would dramatically shrink the Office of Space Commerce and cancel an effort to transition responsibilities for keeping tabs on civil satellites from the Pentagon to the Commerce Department.