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While almost 20% of overall respondents believe that the Space Force is not effective “at all” at improving space acquisition, there is a major split between views of DoD and industry; just 4% of DoD respondents said Space Force hasn’t helped, while 23% of industry respondents held that view.
Given the concerns from across the congressional landscape about Next-Gen OPIR's direction, "it's a reasonable assumption that there's some smoke somewhere there," said Capital Alpha's Byron Callan.
Even the smallest piece of debris travelling at great speeds can put a satellite out of action.
The Air Force has valiantly breathed life into the decades-old E-3 Sentry platform, but as top service officials recently suggested, it can no longer wait for the jump to space-based systems, the authors write in this op-ed. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Bradley Bowman, Maj. Lauren Harrison and Ryan Brobst argue that as Russia and China progress on their own rival systems, the Air Force must act quickly. Defeating adversaries in the future will require the U.S. military to detect and strike targets more quickly than its opponents can. The E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Cont...
In 1910, few believed aerial combat would ever be a thing. In 2020, few believed that Space Force will ever be in space. Just wait.