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  • The war in Ukraine has not been confined to land, sea and air.

  • There's also a secretive and important war effort in space.

  • Intel gathered from satellites has been an important part of

  • how Ukraine has been able to fight back against Russian

  • invaders

  • Space has always been militarized. The dynamic that's

  • shifting is the weaponization of

  • space, as our political and military leadership are telling

  • us it is a warfighting domain.

  • Private companies have released imagery from their satellites,

  • which has shown Russian operations and even likely war

  • crimes all seen from space. And at the forefront of all of this

  • is the US Space Force.

  • We've been collaborating with private private industry, you

  • know, for years now, and certainly we increase that

  • activity, as the presence of commercial industry increases in

  • space. Keep in

  • mind, that's what really provides us for having the edge

  • over any other country in the world, we really have a great

  • partnership between our Department of Defense and those

  • companies who make their own personal investments

  • private companies like maxar technologies, which takes images

  • from orbit and SpaceX, which has provided its Starlink space

  • based broadband system, the future of warfare is in space,

  • and the Space Force is going to play a big role in how it

  • unfolds.

  • The importance of space based assets to Ukraine's preparedness

  • may have helped tip the balance in favor of Kyiv. In the early

  • days of the war,

  • the United States government continues to be a really

  • critical customer for the space industry, specifically for

  • different national security services. Beyond providing

  • rocket launchers for government customers, whether they're

  • classified or not

  • any conflict involves space. You know, we use space for satellite

  • communications and for precision navigation and timing,

  • certainly, in a conflict that that the United States was

  • involved in, we would be critical to the joint force

  • operations,

  • we now have the ability to with our satellites in our space

  • capabilities, to identify all the activities that are going on

  • on the ground. The

  • space industry also has been increasingly providing other

  • services such as satellite imagery. A good recent example

  • is the conflict in Ukraine and a lot of the imagery that we're

  • seeing out of what's happening on the ground in Ukraine,

  • whether that's Russian movement troop movement, or that's

  • Ukrainian military advances.

  • For example, also, Russia, has said that they have not been

  • committing war crimes, but yet our satellites, were able to

  • pick up all the carnage in the actual bodies stone on the side

  • of the streets that they claimed they had no part of. But yet, we

  • now are able to see it

  • different US companies have been providing imagery, sometimes on

  • an hour by hour basis of situations of interest in

  • Ukraine.

  • For decades, there's been a steady drumbeat calling for a

  • specific US military branch dedicated to space. Until

  • recently, it was a job for the Air Force,

  • the creation of the Space Force was not without controversy, as

  • the United States Air Force already had the US Space Command

  • underneath it. The Space

  • Force has around 16,000 Personnel assigned in a budget

  • of 24 point 5 billion. Compare this to the Air Force which has

  • over 300,000 airmen on active duty and a budget of 194

  • billion. We want to maintain

  • you know, maintain that advantage maintain that free use

  • of space for US companies to go and operate in the domain safely.

  • The space Force's main mission is to organize, train and equip

  • our military forces to be able to deal with our national

  • security assets in space. So this means both acquiring

  • satellites, you know, contracting for them to be

  • designed, built and launched into space, then operating those

  • satellites, receiving that data and processing it. It's the

  • ground infrastructure that matters a lot right now, people

  • might be disappointed that there's not going to be at least

  • in the moment, a bunch of armed astronauts in weaponized

  • spacecraft or near around tenting enemies like they might

  • see in Star Wars or something. But it's really important that

  • we have the right you know, sensing capabilities,

  • communications capabilities, anything that goes up and down

  • from the earth.

  • As the Space Force mission expands. There have been calls

  • for a space National Guard as well.

  • I think really making sure that we have a separate standalone

  • National Guard Space Force. Section A really allows us to

  • make sure we deal with the intersection between our

  • domestic train National Guard and the support they provide for

  • the warfighters.

  • The explosion In private space access has been rapid.

  • One of the primary ways that companies across the space

  • ecosystem interact with the US Space Force is through different

  • types of services. One of the most well known ones in high

  • profile is that of launch services through a variety of

  • different programs, typically launching different types of

  • government satellites of all shapes and sizes, whether

  • they're small satellites that are riding along with rockets,

  • such as virgin orbit, or Astra or they're much larger

  • satellites on very expensive missions. For the United Launch

  • Alliance, which is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed

  • Martin, or with SpaceX, which are the two main large heavy

  • rocket Builders here in the United States, at least Space

  • Systems Command out in Los Angeles as part of the Space

  • Force really is the front runner in this so there is a

  • opportunity for new starts and small business mentoring gap and

  • for example, in my region, commercial space is scheduled to

  • to grow dramatically over the next decade. And so again, it's

  • not only good for the economy, and providing jobs, jobs, jobs,

  • but it's good all the way around for our national defense as

  • well.

  • Besides the big household names, as are companies like maxar, and

  • Hawkeye360, among others are providing important services to

  • the US government.

  • These companies continue to both develop their products, as well

  • as demonstrate to the United States government how they can

  • provide different services that the government would like to

  • purchase.

  • Much like how the Navy keeps Ocean trade lanes open, the

  • Space Force will help commercial operation storage space junk,

  • keep track of potential space pitfalls, and provide

  • information as the use of space becomes even bigger.

  • The United States government continues to be a really

  • critical customer for the space industry, specifically for

  • different national security services beyond providing rocket

  • launchers for government customers, whether they're

  • classified or not.

  • We need to establish international norms where we get

  • as many countries as possible to sign up to adhere to those

  • standards and norms like we did with the Geneva Convention. For

  • conflicts, we need to do that for space. Because there are

  • there's real implications for the debris, the proliferation of

  • debris in space,

  • Russia and China remain a key concern as competitors in the

  • field of space, space militarization,

  • China probably has more sophisticated and kind of space

  • weaponry, or, and they also have more sophisticated space assets.

  • Generally, they have a lot more at stake in space, they're

  • investing a lot, but we cannot ignore Russia, obviously. I

  • mean, they've demonstrated that they are willing to use some

  • counter space weapons in conflict in Ukraine. These are

  • weapons that we've tracked for years we knew they had and so

  • you can't fully ignore Russia in favor of China, you kind of have

  • to be able to, you know, to deter both

  • US Space Force is also involved in looking at newer technologies

  • and how they could fit into the future of the US is national

  • security apparatus in space. US Space

  • Force continues to look at different ways that can see the

  • industry's development, either through different contracts to

  • small rocket launch companies that are really starting to come

  • into the fore in terms of providing services to deliver

  • payloads to orbit or through experimental kind of next

  • generation programs. One such example would be the rocket

  • cargo program. That's an idea of using rockets to deliver

  • payloads and other services from one point on the earth to

  • another point on the earth and back those different types of

  • systems offer a capability in which something that would maybe

  • traditionally fly via very large cargo aircraft, over several

  • hours or days could be delivered within an hour from one point in

  • United States to anywhere in the world.

  • Although new, the Space Force is dedicated to producing its own

  • culture that furthers warfighting capability in space,

  • as we separate and we become, you know, not not air minded

  • airmen like we were in the Air Force, but really thinking about

  • space power and thinking about the space domain and how to

  • operate. That's absolutely the culture that we're building

  • right now.

The war in Ukraine has not been confined to land, sea and air.

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