Date
Speaker
Quote
Event/Article
12/15/2022
Frank Calvelli, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisitions and Integration
On competition with China [Biggest thing I’ve seen them do over the last decade is proliferation of smaller satellites. That’s one of the biggest challenges we have is their strength in numbers.]
12/14/2022
Brendan Carr, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
[Greatest long-term threat to US is China… It was said they would use every tool at their disposal. There’s bipartisan agreement that this needs to be addressed. We need to proceed with all this in mind. China will use other countries to pursue goals. We know the playbook.]
12/14/2022
Makena Young, Associate Fellow, Aerospace Security Project
[As China continues to develop its ambitions for its own LEO broadband initiative, the US could lose its advantage. BRI could lead numerous countries to rely more on China.]
12/14/2022
Dr. John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, DoD
[We need integration. I’m doing my part to try to drive this. Part of the brilliance of directing the Department to focus on China as the pacing challenge, it’s driving the need to move faster.]
[If we have agreed upon norms and they’ve violated, then that can show everybody a lot. China and Russia don’t have to sign up for a norm to be created. Over time, norms can grow stronger and stronger. China and Russia voting against the destructive ASAT resolution, you don’t have to vote for it to comply with it. I hope there will be none going forward. The norm can be established with or without a vote.]
12/13/2022
Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director, Secure World Foundation
[We need to figure out what to do about China. US and China need to have dialog. I would urge Congress to show leadership and, not cooperate, but engage with China to ensure space is safe and predictable for all.]
[There’s the working group looking at NSS policy. There will be four meeting in the year. January meeting, countries will submit their thoughts for what they want to see in norms. In August meeting hopefully they will have come to some type of agreement. And then there could possibly be another resolution. Russia and China are supporting another working group. They are trying to push their treaty. It hasn’t gotten anywhere but they keep pushing it. It’ll be taken up at the end of 2023.]
12/6/2022
Col. Joseph Roth, Commander, Innovation & Prototyping Acquisitions Delta, SSC, USSF
"We're trying to do a paradigm shift to focus on commercial due to the pacing challenge we have with the strategic competition with China. And so making sure we stay ahead of that threat. And our industry is key to that. And so we can deter conflict in space."
12/3/2022
Frank Kendall, Secretary, USAF
[We’re all looking at it very carefully. I would like China to learn the economic consequences. That your military might not be quite accurate. Putin certainly overestimated including cyber capabilities. Another thing, the short war you may have anticipated might not be the war you’d get. One thing I hope also, there are a lot of unknowns associated with conflict. The things you might want to do, they sound good but they might not work as well as you anticipated.]
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