Douglas Schiess
47:10 - 47:43
"we need the ability to have space superiority, and what that means is we have to have the ability to counter someone else's ability to, to hold our satellites at risk and to be able to destroy them. And the vast bulk of that money is for, is for equipment, not, not personnel."
“we need the ability to have space superiority, and what that means is we have to have the ability to counter someone else's ability to, to hold our satellites at risk and to be able to destroy them. And the vast bulk of that money is for, is for equipment, not, not personnel.”
- Speaker
- Douglas Schiess
- Timestamp
- 47:10 – 47:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
Please go ahead to make the case for the, for the budget increase. What I'd say is, for, for decades, uh, before the Space Force, uh, in the Air Force, and then now, we have provided incredible combat-relevant effects to the joint warfighter. We can talk about GPS, we can talk about SATCOM. What is different now is we need the ability to have space superiority, and what that means is we have to have the ability to counter someone else's ability to, to hold our satellites at risk and to be able to destroy them. And the vast bulk of that money is for, is for equipment, not, not personnel.
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