Moving toward a need-to-collaborate culture for national security space
Jamie Morin
How can the government and industry balance secrecy and collaboration in their national security space work?
Today’s competitive national security environment requires vigilance in guarding those secrets that help the United States maintain its advantages. But it is possible to overdo secrecy, and there is a growing consensus among policymakers for changing the security posture in the space domain — to one that better balances secrecy and collaboration.
Rapid developments in space pose both opportunities and challenges for U.S. national security space efforts, with the sheer amount of information available from private space systems expanding and the threat environment worsening. Simultaneously, the national security space enterprise is reorganizing, creating different organizational seams.
The democratization of space is the key driver in the need for change. New companies and countries are operating satellites for the first time, sometimes providing even space services previously limited to superpower governments.
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