August 21, 2023

Strategic Implications of China's Cislunar Space Activities

This scholarly paper co-authored by Marc Berkowitz and Chris Williams describes China’s grand strategy under Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, space in China’s strategy, China’s robust cislunar space plans and activities, and the strategic implications of China’s plans for the eventual domination of cislunar space.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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May 30, 2023

Assessing the U.S. Space Force Budget

This report provides critical analysis and insights on the President's budget request for FY 2024 from noted experts Marc Berkowitz, Kari Bingen, Steve Kitay, John Paul Parker, JR Riordan, and Mandy Vaughn. These comments identify noteworthy advances and shortfalls in the USSF’s budget request, and provide a guide to better understanding key budgetary and programmatic trends.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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February 22, 2023

Redesigning Space Forces for Deterrence and Warfighting

Future space forces must be structured and postured to complicate an adversary’s risk calculus, present a difficult targeting challenge, and enable forces to evade, operate through, degrade gracefully, and prevent attack to enable deterrence by both denial and punishment as well as warfighting across the conflict spectrum.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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June 21, 2022

United States Space Command: Progress and Opportunities

This paper highlights some of the key challenges and opportunities facing USSPACECOM and encourages the President, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Air Force, Chief of Space Operations, Director of National Intelligence, Members of Congress, and others to provide the financial, personnel, materiel and other resources in support of USSPACECOM, given the increasing importance of the Command’s mission.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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April 2, 2022

NSSA Space Strategic Review Letter

The National Security Space Association (NSSA) commends the Biden administration’s decision to conduct a “Space Strategic Review”. The prestige, influence, prosperity, security, and defense of the United States depend upon the conduct of activities in outer space.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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February 22, 2022

Leveraging Commercial Space Capabilities for U.S. National Security

The United States continues to debate how to improve the capability, affordability, agility, and resilience of its force structure and posture for national security space activities to address current and emerging threats to the freedom of space. Freedom of access to, passage through, and operations in space are now contested by nations with inimical interests and hostile intentions.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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June 24, 2021

Bipartisan Next Steps in National Security Space

Recent years have witnessed landmark changes in U.S. national security space management, organization, programs, and activities -- the most noteworthy of which were the creation of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as a new armed service to organize, train and equip space forces and re-establishment of the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) to plan and conduct joint and combined military space operations.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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May 27, 2021

Help Wanted: A National Security Space Community in Need of a Workforce

You don’t have to search for long to find articles about the dearth of STEM graduates here in the US. Or how many people will be needed in the workforce of the future that will fill high tech, multi-disciplinary and agile teams. It’s not a deep Google search to find references of the National Security implications of limited STEM interest (and other critical fields) needed for complex systems to come to fruition.

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The Moorman Center for Space Studies, with input and guidance from the NSSA Membership and Board of Advisors, periodically publishes scholarly and position papers in an effort to advance national security space thought leadership and strengthen the national security space enterprise on the whole.

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