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Brig. Gen. John Olson, who advises CSO Gen. Jay Raymond on space logistics issues, believes the US must rapidly act to take the "first mover advantage" for itself to block Chinese ambitions, which could include territorial claims in space.
As the march of space commerce continues apace, the United States and other space nations will need to consider how they intend to harness the benefits of commercial space exploitation and corral the risks.
"Congress can hold politicals accountable -- not so much with the uniformed officers," one former DoD official said.
"If the Space Systems Command is going to acquire other commercial services in the same fashion that CSCO has been acquiring commercial SATCOM, then that will not serve the warfighter well," said Rebecca Cowan-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat.
HPSCI cites the "increasingly complex" space environment as the rationale for the new National Space Intelligence Center.