Newly proposed licensing rules for commercial remote sensing will eliminate automatic DoD review rights for of a majority of applications.

“Security in space is different than security on Earth,” says Jeb Linton of IBM Watson. “If you lose command and control for even five minutes, your satellite could be completely shut down.”

“I think it will be incumbent on governments pretty soon to force operators to have some way to get their  satellite out of the way [when it fails] and get it into a proper graveyard orbit,” says Michael Pollack, who does business development for Effective Space.

The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don’t only work on space — so who stays and who goes?

“President Trump has made it clear that the race to 5G is a race America will win,” Pence said.

Large networks of small, cheap satellites derived from commercial technology would be harder for China or Russia to kill than a handful of expensive, exquisite military-unique birds. But who gets to build it?

Venture capital funds are pouring money into space start-ups — including a number of firms being eyed by DoD –with investment in 2018 hitting a record high of $3.2 billion.

Sir Richard Branson says the US military “is very excited” about the capabilities of Virgin’s Launcher One for resiliency on orbit.

The space threat’s the thing at this year’s Space Symposium.

Indian claims of no threat from ASAT test debris is “nonsense.”