The realities of funding and the need to disseminate what the space ISR infrastructure gathers means that “integration of activities in space becomes increasingly important” in the future, Air Force Undersecretary Ron Sega told reporters yesterday. Sega sees an increasingly blurred line “going forward” between “white and black”—open and secret—space activities.
The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22. Emerging defense technologies like swarms of…