Space Force’s Saltzman: US national security space policy ‘lagging’ needs
"[W]e restrain ourselves from doing what is needful to avoid creating improper perceptions of 'weaponizing space.' In reality, space has been weaponized for at least two decades, and our slowness to absorb that reality has held back our progress," Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
By Theresa Hitchens
on April 03, 2025 at 1:25 PM
WASHINGTON — A lack of high level US government attention to crafting national security space policy is creating constraints on the Space Force’s ability to quickly evolve to counter today’s threats, particularly from China’s growing space power, says Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman.
“I just feel like we’re lagging in the importance of establishing declaratory policy, you know, and establishing the kind of policies we need to move fast,” he told the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan congressional advisory group, in a hearing today.
“Space has been a little bit out of sight, out of mind — literally out of sight, out of mind — and so it just hasn’t risen to the level where serious policy considerations need to be,” Saltzman said.
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/cso-saltzman-us-national-security-space-policy-lagging-needs/
