National Defense Strategy driving space resiliency requirements, planning

By Courtney Albon / April 26, 2018 at 3:27 PM
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- For the first time, the Pentagon's top strategy documents include language about space as a warfighting domain -- a change that Defense Department officials say is driving changes to the way the military thinks about protecting its on-orbit assets. DOD officials have been characterizing space as an increasingly contested domain for several years and have been positioning space architectures to operate through and in response to growing threats. However, in interviews during the annual Space Symposium...

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