View Space and Security: A Conversation with Sean O’Keefe By Todd Harrison, Sean O'Keefe PublishedNovember 16, 2015 Todd Harrison sat down with former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe to discuss how the U.S. military’s increasing reliance on space-based capabilities raises a number of issues, such as how to deter threats and increase cooperation with partners and allies in space.
View If Russia is Selling, the Pentagon Should Keep Buying — Rocket Engines, That Is By Todd Harrison PublishedMay 18, 2016 What’s the rush? Before hastily cutting off the engines we need, Congress should set the conditions for a better American space launch market.
View MUOS-5 highlights a critical U.S. vulnerability in space By Todd Harrison PublishedNovember 7, 2016 A strange thing happened in July when the U.S. Navy’s MUOS-5 satellite was on its way to geosynchronous orbit. The thruster it was using to raise its orbit stopped working unexpectedly.
View NASA in the Second Space Age: Exploration, Partnering, and Security By Todd Harrison, Nahmyo Thomas PublishedNovember 30, 2016 How does the world’s leading federal space agency adapt to changes in the space domain? If NASA is no longer operating in a peaceful sanctuary, how should its goals in exploration and global partnerships change?
View More than just fixing the rules: regulating for innovation By Kaitlyn Johnson PublishedApril 27, 2017 A variety of new space technologies are emerging in the U.S. space industry, and policymakers should look for ways to facilitate this innovation and make these technologies more accessible to civil, commercial, and military space customers.
View Bringing the Air Force into its Centennial By Heather Wilson PublishedOctober 5, 2017 Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson spoke at CSIS on October 5, 2017, outlining the service’s priorities for its major acquisition efforts over the next three decades.
View The Evolution of Space as a Contested Domain By Todd Harrison, Zack Cooper, Kaitlyn Johnson, Thomas G. Roberts PublishedOctober 10, 2017 From the dawn of the first space age, Americans understood the many benefits that could come from the peaceful uses of space and the great harm that could result from hostile uses of space.
View CBO’s Nuclear Weapons Cost Estimate Is Way Too High; Hint — Bombers By Todd Harrison PublishedNovember 21, 2017 The recent estimate on how much the next generation of nuclear weapons will cost by the relentlessly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office differed from an earlier report by an impressive $800 million.
View Bad Idea: UAVs Aren’t Usable in Contested Environments By Andrew Metrick PublishedDecember 4, 2017 The conventional wisdom is that existing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are not capable of operating in contested environments. However, new thinking can enable the use of existing UAS to support operations in such environments.
View Bad Idea: Armed Drones in West Africa By Alice Hunt Friend PublishedDecember 11, 2017 While the use of drones in West Africa is an operational tool, Alice Hunt Friend contends that they will make the U.S. counterterrorism efforts harder to acquire.
