Gen. Stephen Whiting, U.S. Space Command commander, and Maj. Gen. Brian Gibson, USSPACECOM director plans, strategy, and policy, left, talks to Director Gen. Jun Kazeki, Japan's National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office, at the 40th Annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 7, 2025. Whiting, and Kazeki met in Tokyo during Whiting’s first international visit to the Indo-Pacific region as the USSPACECOM commander in 2024, where he received an update on the QZSS Hosted Payload, a pathfinding national security space cooperation initiative between the U.S. and Japan. USSPACECOM, working with Allies and Partners, plans, executes, and integrates military spacepower into multi-domain global operations in order to deter aggression, defend national interests, and when necessary, defeat threats.