The Defense Department's latest industrial capabilities report identifies the national security space sector's highest risk technologies and resources areas, which it has labeled "essential to the national defense." Those areas include: aerospace structures and fibers, radiation-hardened microelectronics, radiation test and qualification facilities and satellite components and assemblies, according to the 2018 report , which was released Monday. "NSS increasingly leverages the commercial space industry; however, there are certain performance requirements and capabilities that are more demanding or unique to NSS...
