United States Space Force

Siting New Spaceports and Use of Priority Airspace for Critical Space Launch Corridors

The U.S. Should Back Israel’s Push for Advanced Space Technology

When a Hezbollah missile damaged Israel’s Elah Valley satellite communications station in March, it showed that space power can be threatened on Earth. The IDF’s announcement on October 19 that...

America runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan

Most Americans think GPS merely provides directions: open the map, follow the blue dot and get where you need to go. But that’s just the consumer application. The national security applications of GPS...

America Must Be Able to Restore Its Space Power at War Speed

For decades, the U.S. military treated space largely as an enabler of power on Earth. Satellites helped troops communicate, guided precision weapons, and provided intelligence. Today, those systems are...

U.S. Space Command Is Testing Maneuver Warfare To Prepare for Next Generation of Fighting

It won’t look like a dogfight from Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica, but in a future war, U.S. satellites may need to maneuver to survive. Space Command (SPACECOM) is practicing the right way to do...

Space Force Is Deepening Allied Cooperation. Congress Should Track the Results.

The United States and its allies are still fine-tuning how to operate together in space. During the last week of June, U.S. and other Five Eyes personnel convened at Vandenberg Space Force Base for...

How Congress Is Pressing the U.S. Space Force To Mature

“Space is no longer a sanctuary. Adversaries, particularly the People’s Republic of China, are rapidly fielding counterspace weapons that threaten critical joint force capabilities,” the House Appropriations...

Pro-Iran Hackers Outsmart Meta AI Chatbot, Access High-Profile Accounts

Hackers are coming after those friendly, cheerful chatbots used in customer support roles almost everywhere, and the first week of June told the tale. Attackers used a series of basic questions to exploit...

Findings of the Commission on Cyber Force Generation

The Pentagon Is Transforming U.S. Commercial Satellites Into Tactical Battlefield Infrastructure

Contested battlefields can change in seconds. Vehicles move, targets disappear, and outdated intelligence can quickly place U.S. operators at risk.  For special operations forces (SOF) operating...

Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems

Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors

The new Greenland deal

With America leading and NATO following, the Arctic can be defended

Establishing a Cyber Force: A Defense Imperative

Australia Needs Help To Face China’s Threat in Space

Security here on Earth is reliant on the security of a nation’s assets in space. This is as true for Australia as it is for the United States.

Space Modernization for the 21st Century

Building the Future U.S. Cyber Force

What Right Looks Like

The Pentagon knows its cyber force model is broken. Here’s how to fix it

More than two decades after declaring cyberspace a warfighting domain, the U.S. military relies on an inefficient and ineffective solution to generate the capabilities needed to defend it.

Nuclear Cooperation Among the ‘Axis of Aggressors’: An Emerging Threat

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense is costly, ambitious — and necessary

President Donald Trump this week took important steps to advance his “Golden Dome” missile-defense system — and not a moment too soon. For years, administrations of both parties...

10 Reasons Why America Needs a Cyber Force

1. The next war the United States fights will begin in cyberspace. Cyberattacks will almost certainly be used by an adversary in the opening phases of a crisis or conflict to target the U.S. homeland...