Space Force joins the intelligence community January 14 The logo of the U.S. Space Force is seen on the side of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (United Launch Alliance) WASHINGTON The intelligence arm of the Space Force is an official part of the U.S. intelligence community. “Today, we took action to elevate space intelligence missions, tradecraft and collaboration to ensure the success of the Space Force, the Intelligence Community, and ultimately our national security,” said Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, following a Jan. 8 ceremony. “This is a significant milestone, a clear statement that America is committed to a secure and accessible space domain. Our partnership will ensure the Space Force and the nation remain always above any threat.”
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WASHINGTON: A new Commercial Space Council set up by the Intelligence Community is designed to rethink how data and analysis is gleaned from commercial space systems to help speed intel products to users.
There are five “standing members” of the council the NRO, the NSA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the DIA and the CIA plus “plenty of observers,” David Gauthier, NGA head of commercial space ops, told the SmallSat Alliance today. Gauthier has been named by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe as chair of the new council.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that he did not know for sure if the coronavirus pandemic began through an accidental leak from a lab in Wuhan, though he defended the theory as plausible and argued that all of the available evidence indicated COVID-19 originated in China.
The US since the Cold War has been the only superpower in the world. No matter how hard it tries to portray alleged foreign enemies, no external forces can cause such a big country to collapse.
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The Trump administration’s newly declassified strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific stressed countering China’s influence in the region, counterbalancing by strengthening India, vowing to defend Taiwan, and more and its public release upset the Chinese Communist Party.
The 10-page, largely unredacted, National Security Council framework, which guided the U.S. strategy for confronting China and partnering with U.S. allies in the region, appeared to have been authored by now-former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, was approved by President Trump in February 2018, and was declassified by national security adviser Robert O’Brien earlier in January.