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.
President Donald Trump said the project to develop a missile defense shield should be "fully operational" before the end of his term, and claimed Canada has asked to join the project.
Space Force leaders are sharpening their rhetorical swords regarding the service's need to build space warfighting chops.
Derek Tournear said he's concerned about cybersecurity and supply chain, and especially where they overlap: foreign-written software.
One of the key challenges for tracking enemy aircraft from space is that airplanes and drones move much faster than tanks, trucks and ships; confounded by the fact that satellites themselves also move around the Earth extremely fast.
"I would imagine that as Department of Commerce continues to mature this concept, we will definitely want to take advantage of what they're doing," said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
After a top Air Force official strongly hinted at coming changes to the Air Force's structure, Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin warn that one particular option would be bad news for America's nuclear readiness.
"I don't care what it takes to get after the threat. That's really the cultural change that we're embarking upon," SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association's inaugural Spacepower conference.
A senior Space Force official said the Air Force was getting "rid" of the current structure as part of a great power reoptimization, but later walked back his comments as "not concrete."
Air Marshall Harvey Smyth, UK Air and Space Commander, suggested that one way to move forward might be to find a mutually desired "capability set" and pursue it under a joint program along the lines of the F-35.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Space Systems Command's new Commercial Space Marketplace for Innovation and Collaboration (COSMIC) facility in Chantilly, Virg., will serve as the "physical headquarters" for the SSC Commercial Space Office.
For the newest military arm, this year saw it plant the seeds for important changes in everything from strategy to acquisition.
"We have spent a lot of time admiring the problem of how to be responsive in space," SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein said. "We are done admiring the problem and we are getting after the combatant commands' need to truly protect and defend the peaceful use of space."
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, as head of SSC, has enormous responsibility for space acquisition programs, but lacks direct financial control.