Department of Defense

The United States doesn’t go to war alone on land, on the sea, in the air, in cyberspace and most certainly in the space domain, the Space Force’s top officer said, citing the United Kingdom as a key ally in effective space defense over the last 50 years.

Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, chief of space operations and commander of U.S. Space Command, delivered a virtual keynote address at the London Air & Space Power Conference today.

The United States and its allies and partners rely on satellites to provide communications; precision navigation and timing; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and missile warning, the general said. Safeguarding those space systems also is important to the global economy, he noted, citing transportation and financial markets that rely on GPS and the speed of information transfer.

But space superiority and the information advantage it provides are no longer a given, Raymond said. “Strategic competitors such as China and Russia have the means to attack space operations wherever they occur, kinetically and non-kinetically,” he said, “on Earth, in orbit, in cyberspace and in the electromagnetic spectrum.”

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