While the U.S. Space Force hopes to get its own service acquisition executive soon, the newest military service submitted its first Program Objective Memorandum (POM) budget proposal to DoD in the last few months, as Space Force looks to build on U.S. space strengths and counter space technological advances made by China and Russia."It is clear today that space is a warfighting domain, just like air, land, and sea, and I couldn't have said that five or six years ago in a public setting," Chief of Space Operations Gen. John "Jay" Raymond told a National Defense University Foundation virtual forum on Oct. 27. "We didn't want space to become a warfighting domain, and we still frankly don't, but adversaries have a vote. Russia and China are developing capabilities in two pieces. One is to have space capabilities for their own use so they have the same advantage we have enjoyed over the last decades of integrating space to great effect. And second, they're developing a pretty significant set of threats that would threaten our ability to access our space capabilities--everything from reversible jamming on one end all the way up to kinetic destruction on the other."
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