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Defense Space Strategy Addresses Militarization, Competition
by C. Todd Lopez , DOD News
June 27, 2020

"The Defense Department's newly released Defense Space Strategy addresses new realities in space ... great power competition and militarization of the domain," Stephen Kitay, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy said.

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California on March 26, 2018. The test launch was part of the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Program’s demonstration and shakedown operation certification process. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ronald Gutridg)
An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California on March 26, 2018. The test launch was part of the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Program’s demonstration and shakedown operation certification process. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ronald Gutridg)

"The Defense Space Strategy provides strategic direction for department wide changes to policies, doctrine, capabilities, operations and partnerships, to ensure U.S. space superiority, to secure our nation's vital interests in space," Stephen Kitay told reporters during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 17, 2020.

"Our desired conditions are a secure, stable and accessible space domain," he stated.

The new strategy, he said, involves maintaining space superiority; providing space support to the national, joint and combined operations; and ensuring space stability.

The department will achieve these conditions with four lines of effort:

  1. Building a comprehensive military advantage in space

  2. Integrating military space power into national, joint and combined operations

  3. Shaping the strategic environment

  4. Cooperating with allies, partners, industry and other U.S. government departments and agencies.

"The Defense Space Strategy lays out a path that embraces space as a unique domain of national military power, and together with other domains, underpins joint and combined operations to advance national security," Kitay said.

The new strategy comes as the intelligence community has begun to understand that competitors are now moving aggressively into the space domain and have made efforts to weaponize it, Kitay told reporters.

"China and Russia have weaponized space and turned it into a warfighting domain," he said. "Their actions pose the greatest strategic threat with the ongoing development, testing and deployment of counterspace systems and the associated military doctrine designed to hold the allied and U.S. space systems at risk."

As examples, Kitay said China and Russia are now developing jamming and cyberspace capabilities, directed energy weapons, on-orbit capabilities and ground based anti-satellite missiles to achieve their own goals in space.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Arabsat 6A lifts off from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida on April 12, 2019. This flight marks the second launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket; the most powerful space vehicle flying today. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lieutenant Alex Preisser)
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Arabsat 6A lifts off from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida on April 12, 2019. This flight marks the second launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket; the most powerful space vehicle flying today. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lieutenant Alex Preisser)

He cited two reports — "Challenges to Security in Space" by the Defense Intelligence Agency and "Competing in Space" by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center — in providing examples of both Russian and Chinese militarization of space.

"These documents will tell you that China and Russia are developing and planning to use capabilities that threaten our space systems and those of our allies," he said. "Since last year, when those [reports were released], China and Russia have been conducting highly sophisticated on-orbit activities, which pose unprecedented new dangers to U.S. and allied space systems."

Kitay said he believes the United States is still ahead of Russia and China in space, but that the lead is diminishing rapidly and the U.S. is "absolutely at risk" with the pace at which they are developing capability.

"The Defense Space Strategy lays out a path that embraces space as a unique domain of national military power, and together with other domains, underpins joint and combined operations to advance national security," he said.

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