Managing Space Acquisition as a Warfighting Capability

Stephanie Young, Cynthia R. Cook, Yool Kim, Lauren A. Mayer, Megan McKernan, William Shelton, Éder M. Sousa, Bonnie L. Triezenberg, Jonathan P. Wong

ResearchPosted on rand.org Apr 24, 2025Published in: Defense Acquisition Magazine, Volume LIV, No. 2, DAU 303, pages 36-41 (March-April 2025)

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) faces adversaries that have demonstrated increasingly sophisticated capabilities to deny or degrade U.S. space operations. U.S. success in a future conflict will require development and acquisition of agile integrated systems that are resilient to these threats, at speed and at scale.

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  • Copyright: Defense Acquisition University
  • Publisher: DAU Press
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2025
  • Pages: 6
  • Document Number: EP-70922

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