Douglas Schiess
30:36 - 31:12
"what they are doing with what I'll call counter-space and space superiority capabilities is breathtakingly fast. They have watched the Space Force and the Air Force before that and the activities that we have had to enable the joint force, and they have determined that they need to come up with capabilities to do that. So we've seen anti-satellite tests from the ground. There are capabilities in space that hold our satellites at risk, and they continue to do that at a rapid pace."
“what they are doing with what I'll call counter-space and space superiority capabilities is breathtakingly fast. They have watched the Space Force and the Air Force before that and the activities that we have had to enable the joint force, and they have determined that they need to come up with capabilities to do that. So we've seen anti-satellite tests from the ground. There are capabilities in space that hold our satellites at risk, and they continue to do that at a rapid pace.”
- Speaker
- Douglas Schiess
- Timestamp
- 30:36 – 31:12
- Community
- Alaska News
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- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
Senator, thank you for allowing me to take that question. As I said in my test— in my written testimony, China's threat is real, and what I would say, what they are doing with what I'll call counter-space and space superiority capabilities is breathtakingly fast. They have watched the Space Force and the Air Force before that and the activities that we have had to enable the joint force, and they have determined that they need to come up with capabilities to do that. So we've seen anti-satellite tests from the ground. There are capabilities in space that hold our satellites at risk, and they continue to do that at a rapid pace.
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