Senate authorizers call for space warfighting policy, reusable launch strategy

By Courtney Albon / June 6, 2018 at 11:52 AM
The Senate Armed Services Committee is calling for the Defense Department to craft a space warfighting policy that would review the resiliency of the national security space enterprise and its ability to defend against threats, defeat potential adversaries and deter future conflict. In its mark of fiscal year 2019 defense policy legislation , released June 6, the committee directs Defense Secretary James Mattis to craft the policy by March 2019, which would take a 10-year look at potential threats in...

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