Space Force chief says he’s working on a declassification strategy, but offers scant details March 3 An artist s rendering of satellites from the Air Force s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, a previously classified surveillance satellite program. (U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Space Force said the nascent service is developing a declassification strategy for space, but he could not share many details on what a new classification would look like or when it would be implemented broadly. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond acknowledged in a speech Wednesday that the classification regime impedes parts of the Space Force’s mission.
China says Japan-US security treaty a product of Cold War The Associated Press February 24 A Chinese Coast Guard ship prepares to anchor in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 14, 2020, for a port call. (AFP via Getty Images) BEIJING China on Wednesday called the Japan-U.S. mutual security pact a product of the Cold War following U.S. criticism of the presence of Chinese coast guard vessels in Japanese-claimed territorial waters over the weekend. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin also reasserted China’s claim to a string of tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan. The verbal exchange followed reports that two Chinese coast guard ships on Sunday twice entered Japanese territorial waters surrounding the islands, known by Japan as Senkaku and by China as Diaoyu.
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Pentagon budget must prioritize Navy, Air Force and cyber, lawmakers say February 22 Two sea power advocates in Congress are making the case to grow the Navy s budget, along with the Air Force and cyber capabilities, at the expense of the other services. (U.S. Navy via Huntington Ingalls Industries) WASHINGTON The U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and cyberwarfare must start taking a larger share of the defense budget if the U.S. is going to compete with China, two sea power advocates in Congress said last week. Speaking at a recent Hudson Institute virtual event, House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee Chairman Joe Courtney, D-Conn., said the Pentagon is at an “inflection point” over whether the Navy, Air Force and cyber “are going to take a larger portion of the pie chart” when the fiscal 2022 budget is released this spring.