Date: 2/23/2023
Speaker: Gen. David Thompson, Vice Chief of Space Operations, USSF
Quote: [Expansion of nontraditional commercial ISR. The IC continues to work on how to provide those services. We’re placing an increased demand signal for how to get needs met.]
Article/Events: National Space Council Users' Advisory Group Meeting February 2023
Date: 2/8/2023
Speaker: Heather Wilson, Former Secretary of the USAF
Quote: In response to Rep. M. Turner on evolving Chinese space threats “Well, I expect that our that our intelligence agencies and the military will be doing technical assessments not only of what they were seeking to collect but also of the wreckage now that it's being collected. But I actually think that this there's some things about this that that I find confusing and that I think probably this Committee should delve into the classified level. The Chinese have over 700 satellites on orbit. Half of them are intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites. What were they thinking? What were they seeking to collect that they couldn't collect from low Earth orbit? Who approved this and why? What did they intend? And did they predict critically what our response would be?...”
Article/Events: HPSCI Open Panel Former Intelligence Officials Testify on National Security
Date: 2/8/2023
Speaker: Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), Chairman, HPSCI
Quote: To Heather Wilson, "...Now that we see China utilizing apparently on a fairly significant scale, as the reports are coming out daily as to the use of these balloons and intelligence collecting. As we look to, you're transitioning from a threat of here's this space threat that China is building out now that they're building out this, you know, it’s hard to detect craft that also does intelligence collection. How do you see this threat evolving with China?”
Article/Events: HPSCI Open Panel Former Intelligence Officials Testify on National Security
Date: 2/8/2023
Speaker: Heather Wilson, Former Secretary of the USAF
Quote: “This Committee oversees the space capabilities for the intelligence community and the environment has changed. Our satellites are extremely vulnerable and we both know we are still the best in the world at space. The United States is unrivaled at space, and our adversaries know it. And they are seeking to develop the capabilities to deny us the use of space during crisis and war. In some ways, we I think we built glass houses before the invention of stones. And we have to think differently and review the strategy for space that thinks about the entire architecture.”
Article/Events: HPSCI Open Panel Former Intelligence Officials Testify on Na
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