Ep. 172: Space Force Evolution

Recognizing that on the service side, you know, not the secretariat side where acquisition occurs, on the service side, if I don't get the requirements right, uh, it's never, it's never gonna be fielded effectively, efficiently, on, on time, on budget, et cetera.

So we've really gone back and re-scrubbed our process.

How is it we develop requirements? What does a good requirement look like? And we found that at a minimum, there's three levels of requirements.

Hello, I'm Colleen Stover.

I'm with the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, part of the Aerospace Corporation.

Welcome to The Space Policy Show.

For people that are not watching the YouTube video right now, you're missing something.

We're actually in the walls of the Pentagon in the executive office.

So this is part of our leadership series.

It's a series of shows that are featuring chiefs.

I resisted calling it the Chief Series.

Um, but we had the chief executive officers of Voyager and Varda talking about enabling the space economy, and they're also with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director of Office of Space Commerce.

Um, we've got the US Space Force Chief Scientists talking about advanced technology.

We've got the NASA medical officer, chief medical officer, talking about living on the Moon.

So today, I am very pleased to feature Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, General Chance Saltzman.

He has been assigned to the Space Force since, um, 2022 in this role as CSO, and he is the senior uniformed officer.

Um, he's only the second one in history.

Um, the Space Force was established in December 2019, so he's getting ready to kind of end his tenure later in the year, and we've asked him to come onto The Space Policy Show to reflect about how the service has matured and developed over his time.

And we've got Jamie Morin leading the conversation.

He is with Aerospace Corporation.

He's the Executive Director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and he's also the Vice President of Defense Strategic Space at the company.

So I'm just gonna go right over to them.

Thank you, everyone, for joining.

We're gonna be showing you some more stuff from inside the Pentagon after the show.

Thanks.

Recognizing that on the service side, you know, not the secretariat side where acquisition occurs, on the service side, if I don't get the requirements right, uh, it's never, it's never gonna be fielded effectively, efficiently, on, on time, on budget, et cetera.

So we've really gone back and re-scrubbed our process.

How is it we develop requirements? What does a good requirement look like? And we found that at a minimum, there's three levels of requirements.

Hello, I'm Colleen Stover.

I'm with the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, part of the Aerospace Corporation.

Welcome to The Space Policy Show.

For people that are not watching the YouTube video right now, you're missing something.

We're actually in the walls of the Pentagon in the executive office.

So this is part of our leadership series.

It's a series of shows that are featuring chiefs.

I resisted calling it the Chief Series.

Um, but we had the chief executive officers of Voyager and Varda talking about enabling the space economy, and they're also with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director of Office of Space Commerce.

Um, we've got the US Space Force Chief Scientists talking about advanced technology.

We've got the NASA medical officer, chief medical officer, talking about living on the Moon.

So today, I am very pleased to feature Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, General Chance Saltzman.

He has been assigned to the Space Force since, um, 2022 in this role as CSO, and he is the senior uniformed officer.

Um, he's only the second one in history.

Um, the Space Force was established in December 2019, so he's getting ready to kind of end his tenure later in the year, and we've asked him to come onto The Space Policy Show to reflect about how the service has matured and developed over his time.

And we've got Jamie Morin leading the conversation.

He is with Aerospace Corporation.

He's the Executive Director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and he's also the Vice President of Defense Strategic Space at the company.

So I'm just gonna go right over to them.

Thank you, everyone, for joining.

We're gonna be showing you some more stuff from inside the Pentagon after the show.

Thanks.