National Security Space Strategy Highlights Industrial Base Health
On Friday, Feb. 4 the Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence published the first-ever jointly signed National Security Space Strategy. The strategy, which will help guide acquisition, planning and space operations over the next decade, incorporates long-sought priorities of AIA.
As highlighted in our report, Tipping Point: Maintaining the Health of the National Security Space Industrial Base, we must reinvigorate our approach towards ensuring the health of the U.S. national security space industrial base. The National Security Space Strategy pointedly calls out the importance of the space industrial base and its role in U.S. security as one of its three strategic objectives. Specifically, the three strategic objectives are:
- Strengthen safety, stability and security in space;
- Maintain and enhance the strategic national security advantages afforded to the United States by space; and
- Energize the space industrial base that supports U.S. national security.
In a press release AIA’s President and CEO Marion C. Blakey stated, “Defense Secretary Gates and Director of National Intelligence Clapper are to be congratulated for the first ever jointly signed National Security Space strategy. In today’s contested, congested and competitive space environment having a clearly enunciated plan in which government and industry work together is more important than ever.”
Learn more about the National Security Space Strategy.
AIA Source: mike.conschafter[at]aia-aerospace.org
