After decades of preparing to repel Soviet and Warsaw Pact armies pouring through the Fulda Gap, the warfighting focus of the U.S.
Army Space and Missile Defense Command is focused on putting “people first” as its top general aims to ensure soldiers who transfer to the U.S. Space Force “are taken care of.”
“People will take care of the mission because we will take care of the people,” Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, commanding general of Space and Missile Defense Command and the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, said May 4.
“If we go in with that mindset, the transfer over to Space Force will be fine,” he said.
Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and Army astronaut Col. Andrew Morgan will speak May 4 at a webinar hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.
Karbler, who has been in command since December 2019, and Morgan will participate in The AUSA Noon Report series.
Two Army officers are among 18 astronauts selected by NASA to become part of the team that will help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the moon.
The Army is taking to space as it works to expand “the depth and breadth” of its ability to quickly and accurately deliver intelligence to troops on the battlefield, said Lt. Gen. Laura Potter, deputy chief of staff for intelligence.
Speaking Oct. 16 during a Warriors Corner presentation at AUSA Now, the 2020 virtual annual meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, Potter talked about the Army’s plans to better use tactical space assets to help deliver intelligence with greater speed, precision and accuracy.
The Army lieutenant general nominated to head the U.S. Space Command said he is “amazed” at the fast transformation the U.S. has made in viewing space as a warfighting domain.
Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, currently Space Command’s deputy commander, will be the first Army officer to head the combatant command if he’s confirmed by the Senate.
Adversaries continue to contest the nation’s use of space, persistently challenging our space dominance and our ability to provide spa
As the U.S. Space Force begins to take shape, it will be critical for the Army to retain the space-related capabilities it needs to perform its missions and ensure soldiers are taken care of, according to a new paper from the Association of the U.S. Army.
Authored by retired Lt. Gen. Richard Formica, “The U.S. Army and the U.S. Space Force” highlights some of the complexities that exist in standing up the new service, which was established in December under the Department of the Air Force.
A March 5 Hot Topic at the Association of the U.S. Army took a closer look at space, the warfighting domain above land, sea and air that is increasingly crowded and filled with growing threats to the interests of the U.S. and its partners.
Pentagon discussions are underway about what capabilities, if any, the Army may be asked to contribute to the new Air Force-controlled U.S. Space Force.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said the division of assets could be complicated. “This is a task that hasn’t been done since 1947,” he said, referring to when the Army Air Corps became the Air Force.
The big question, he said, is “what are the things that need to stay organic to the Army?” That isn’t simple, he said, noting the Army has watercraft and helicopters, things that might logically go in the Navy and Air Force.
