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Sept. 14, 2023

Department of Defense Releases Space Policy Review and Strategy on Protection of Satellites

The Department of Defense recently released to Congress a combined response to the Fiscal Year 2022 NDAA requirement for a Space Policy Review and the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA requirement to make publicly available an unclassified strategy for the protection and defense of on-orbit assets. 

Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess, Combined Force Space Component Command commander and Space Operations Command vice commander, answers a question during a panel at the Air and Space Forces Association's Air Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, M.D. September 12, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Stephanie Serrano)

Sept. 13, 2023

Space superiority now and in the future

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — In the face of a growing number of threats, the Air and Space Forces need to consider how to maintain Air and Space Superiority with limited manning, capacity and budget.

U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, is greeted by U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess, Combined Force Space Component Command commander, U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Dennis O. Bythewood, Combined Force Space Component Command deputy commander, and U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Grange S. Coffin, CFSCC senior enlisted leader, during a visit to Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Aug. 23, 2023.

Sept. 7, 2023

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman visits Combined Force Space Component Command Headquarters

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, is greeted by U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess, Combined Force Space Component Command commander, U.S. Space Force Brig. Gen. Dennis O. Bythewood, Combined Force Space Component Command deputy commander, and U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Grange S. Coffin, CFSCC

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Sept. 1, 2023

Defence Space Command joins JCO global construct

RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia — The Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations Cell (JCO) welcomes Defence Space Command (DSpC) to its global construct, Sept. 1, 2023.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Command recently signed a first-of-its-kind agreement outlining a framework to enable the protection of commercial remote sensing space assets vital to the nation’s intelligence collection mission.

Aug. 31, 2023

NGA, NRO, USSPACECOM plan for threats to commercial satellites

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Joint agreement outlines framework for protection of commercial space assets in a congested – and contested – environment.