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            <strong class="article-detail-dateline">NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) -- &nbsp;</strong><p paraeid="{759b1795-eb4f-4fb0-8b5e-f79dbe0e0080}{146}" paraid="8322931"><strong>As delivered by Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess on Sept. 15, 2026 -</strong></p>

<p paraeid="{759b1795-eb4f-4fb0-8b5e-f79dbe0e0080}{146}" paraid="8322931">Kathleen, thank you for that&nbsp;kind&nbsp;introduction&nbsp;and&nbsp;thank you to the entire&nbsp;AFA&nbsp;Team.&nbsp;What an incredible conference we have going on here.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{759b1795-eb4f-4fb0-8b5e-f79dbe0e0080}{174}" paraid="1474667732">Congratulations&nbsp;to AFA&nbsp;on 80 incredible years of championing our air and space warfighters.&nbsp;So, since you just turned 80, and the Space Force is about to turn 7;&nbsp;it&nbsp;basically means that&nbsp;AFA&nbsp;like&nbsp;our grandparents: every time we&nbsp;come to&nbsp;visit, you treat us well,&nbsp;you hype is up on some&nbsp;sugar,&nbsp;you&nbsp;leave with a bag full of treats&nbsp;and great memories&hellip;&nbsp;and I assume&nbsp;that means that next week,&nbsp;you&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;completely&nbsp;exhausted from all the energy and&nbsp;enthusiasm&nbsp;us&nbsp;grandkids&nbsp;bring&nbsp;and&nbsp;you&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;in desperate need of&nbsp;a vacation.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{1}" paraid="1233040303">I know that&nbsp;vacation will be well deserved.&nbsp;Burt, I was talking to a few folks this morning and I asked them if they were going to get some time off and they said, &ldquo;two days.&rdquo; I said, &ldquo;Saturday and Sunday?&rdquo;&nbsp;I&nbsp;dunno.&nbsp;They said,&nbsp;&ldquo;we&rsquo;re already working toward March.&rdquo; Maybe give them a couple more days, Burt.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{25}" paraid="1178187812">Secretary Meink,&nbsp;sir,&nbsp;thank you for your tireless leadership across our&nbsp;Department.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;been an&nbsp;honor&nbsp;working with&nbsp;you&nbsp;for a long time and&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;an honor to work for you now.&nbsp;Please&nbsp;take&nbsp;my keynote&nbsp;today&nbsp;as&nbsp;that I&rsquo;,&nbsp;already at work and already trying to get&nbsp;after your priorities.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{63}" paraid="1626094439">General Wilsbach&nbsp;and Cindy,&nbsp;thank you for being here,&nbsp;thank you for your partnership.&nbsp;I&rsquo;m&nbsp;energized to serve alongside&nbsp;of&nbsp;you&nbsp;with Debbie and&nbsp;in&nbsp;making sure the Department is getting after what we need to do and as&nbsp;a&nbsp;Joint&nbsp;Chief as&nbsp;we&nbsp;further&nbsp;our&nbsp;services&rsquo;&nbsp;warfighting&nbsp;capabilities.&nbsp;So, thanks.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{115}" paraid="641585548">So,&nbsp;obviously,&nbsp;a&nbsp;lot has changed since the last time I was here&nbsp;at National Harbor. For one&nbsp;and as previously talked about,&nbsp;exactly 12 days ago,&nbsp;almost to&nbsp;the hour, I had the&nbsp;profound&nbsp;honor of assuming responsibility of the Space Force as&nbsp;your&nbsp;Chief of Space Operations.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{149}" paraid="1638913498">It&rsquo;s&nbsp;truly&nbsp;a&nbsp;privilege of a lifetime for&nbsp;my wife,&nbsp;Debbie,&nbsp;and me&nbsp;to serve&nbsp;this nation&nbsp;and advocate for Guardians around the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{177}" paraid="2083292212">But before I get&nbsp;to&nbsp;my remarks,&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;a little early, so&nbsp;I&rsquo;d&nbsp;like to get some blood pumping. Could&nbsp;I have&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;Guardians in the house&nbsp;please&nbsp;stand up?&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{217}" paraid="879282386">Stay standing,&nbsp;maybe do&nbsp;some squats.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{5c244ac4-95af-457b-9393-87d7740da512}{223}" paraid="1778721060">Alright,&nbsp;Now&nbsp;when I say Guardians,&nbsp;I&rsquo;m&nbsp;talking&nbsp;about&nbsp;those in and out of uniform,&nbsp;so we need our&nbsp;civilians&nbsp;to stand up&nbsp;and even our&nbsp;legacy Guardians, our retiree Guardians. We need&nbsp;all of&nbsp;our Guardians to be standing up, please.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{8}" paraid="393050084">I&nbsp;also&nbsp;want to add our&nbsp;Guardian families,&nbsp;please stand up.&nbsp;Everybody&nbsp;stay&nbsp;standing.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{32}" paraid="1915896634">Alright, how&nbsp;about those&nbsp;Airmen&nbsp;that&nbsp;support&nbsp;our&nbsp;Guardians&nbsp;and&nbsp;our&nbsp;space force mission;&nbsp;I need you to stand up.&nbsp;Those of you stationed at a Space Force Base. Those&nbsp;who help with our finance,&nbsp;logistics, comm, security forces.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{84}" paraid="1186516270">Alright,&nbsp;if you are a&nbsp;person&nbsp;still sitting but you&nbsp;depend on&nbsp;Space Force&nbsp;Guardians&nbsp;doing their jobs&nbsp;or someone that&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;from the advantages Guardians provide,&nbsp;c&rsquo;mon I know,&nbsp;stand up.&nbsp;You used Waze or&nbsp;Doordash&nbsp;or something.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{134}" paraid="1851437931">Everybody should be standing now. I was an&nbsp;Airman&nbsp;for almost 30 years, so integrity first, make sure&nbsp;you&rsquo;re&nbsp;standing.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{142}" paraid="77789953">Alright, hey,&nbsp;now&nbsp;look around the room. This is what&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;about:&nbsp;Guardians&nbsp;projecting space power,&nbsp;underpinning Joint Force&nbsp;success&nbsp;and&nbsp;delivering&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;in, from, and to&nbsp;space&nbsp;for our nation.&nbsp;The&nbsp;number&nbsp;of people standing up in this room is just a small example of how we&nbsp;benefit&nbsp;from the capabilities the Space Force&nbsp;generates.&nbsp;Thanks so much!&nbsp;Please take your&nbsp;seats.&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{226}" paraid="1600882311">Alright,&nbsp;we have&nbsp;come an extraordinary distance in&nbsp;nearly seven&nbsp;years&nbsp;and&nbsp;I&rsquo;m&nbsp;incredibly proud of what&nbsp;we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;been able to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;in such&nbsp;a short time.&nbsp;But&nbsp;we know&nbsp;we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;got more&nbsp;work to do.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{754535c5-e527-466e-8cec-3c1b9f0bf6cf}{250}" paraid="846334753">As you just saw, everyone in this room&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;from our nation&rsquo;s use of space capabilities. Our service must meet the demands of the increasingly contested and expanding domain&nbsp;from low Earth orbit&nbsp;all the way&nbsp;out to cislunar space.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{15}" paraid="1955449851">That&rsquo;s&nbsp;why we are laser focused on growth:&nbsp;urgently maturing our capabilities, developing our people, and increasing capacity to outpace evolving threats.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{25}" paraid="154999907">As Guardians we embrace&nbsp;this&nbsp;mission with&nbsp;such&nbsp;conviction because the Space Force&nbsp;is&nbsp;purpose-built for it&nbsp;and&nbsp;we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;had&nbsp;visionary leaders championing&nbsp;us from the very beginning.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{53}" paraid="1398420178">Our first CSO, General Raymond,&nbsp;much like&nbsp;the first Chief of&nbsp;Staff of the&nbsp;Air&nbsp;Force,&nbsp;General Carl Spaatz,&nbsp;built the foundation that made our service an enduring, indispensable warfighting branch. He&nbsp;established&nbsp;early on that space superiority is non-negotiable for American dominance.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{89}" paraid="1180466976">Following him, our second CSO, General Saltzman,&nbsp;just like&nbsp;the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force,&nbsp;General Hoyt Vandenberg,&nbsp;led the next critical phase: turning that foundation into a combat-ready force.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{115}" paraid="1396932349">Here&rsquo;s&nbsp;what&nbsp;our force looks&nbsp;like&nbsp;today,&nbsp;in action.&nbsp;Please roll the video.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{137}" paraid="1470912319">[Play Hype Video]&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{149}" paraid="729671994">How about that? Pretty cool, huh?&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{157}" paraid="121858263">What an exciting time to be a Guardian!&nbsp;Our foundation is solid and we are&nbsp;delivering&nbsp;combat-ready forces&nbsp;and&nbsp;now we must&nbsp;grow&nbsp;our combat&nbsp;power.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{191}" paraid="1489829040">To drive&nbsp;that&nbsp;growth, my&nbsp;time&nbsp;as CSO will&nbsp;center on three&nbsp;priorities: Forge the Guardian&nbsp;Ethos, Arm&nbsp;and Grow&nbsp;the Guardian Force, and&nbsp;Integrate Guardian Power at Scale.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{81ef7061-aab0-4943-a138-050076defacf}{231}" paraid="1365649756">Forging the Guardian Ethos&nbsp;is our foundational priority because&nbsp;ethos&nbsp;underpins how we act&nbsp;and&nbsp;the character of our service. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;reason why&nbsp;Character is&nbsp;the first&nbsp;of the Guardian&rsquo;s&nbsp;core&nbsp;values.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{d97d1807-b2d6-4259-b09b-e22329a6d65a}{12}" paraid="919063830">Before&nbsp;you became&nbsp;an acquirer,&nbsp;a&nbsp;space&nbsp;operator,&nbsp;an&nbsp;intel analyst, or a cyber&nbsp;operator&nbsp;you&nbsp;were&nbsp;a Guardian first.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Space Force&nbsp;acts&nbsp;together, as One Guardian Team. A military force uniquely trained and equipped to deliver unparalleled&nbsp;space&nbsp;warfighting&nbsp;advantage.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{d97d1807-b2d6-4259-b09b-e22329a6d65a}{64}" paraid="107726648">Guardians like Tech&nbsp;Sergeant&nbsp;Jenna Hill, embody the heart of our Force. Enlisting&nbsp;as a space systems operator&nbsp;eight years ago,&nbsp;Jenna recently completed&nbsp;her first year as a&nbsp;Space Force Basic&nbsp;Military Training Instructor&nbsp;where she has personally&nbsp;inspired&nbsp;and mentored&nbsp;hundreds&nbsp;of&nbsp;new Guardians&nbsp;already.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{d97d1807-b2d6-4259-b09b-e22329a6d65a}{128}" paraid="10561297">Her journey comes&nbsp;full-circle. As an 18-year-old&nbsp;trainee&nbsp;from Windsor, New York,&nbsp;Jenna&nbsp;was awestruck by the professionalism of her own&nbsp;instructors,&nbsp;who instilled in her an unwavering pride&nbsp;in herself and her service.&nbsp;Today, she passes that same spark to the next generation of space warfighters. Alongside&nbsp;all of&nbsp;our dedicated Military Training Instructors, Jenna plays a pivotal role in strengthening and expanding our training pipeline.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{d97d1807-b2d6-4259-b09b-e22329a6d65a}{164}" paraid="1344411384">And at&nbsp;home, Jenna&nbsp;takes on&nbsp;the&nbsp;most&nbsp;important role: being a proud&nbsp;mother to her three-year-old daughter, Charley.&nbsp;Jenna, I&nbsp;think&nbsp;you&rsquo;re&nbsp;in the audience somewhere, please stand up and be recognized,&nbsp;and thank you for what you do.&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{d97d1807-b2d6-4259-b09b-e22329a6d65a}{200}" paraid="1299555258">Guardians like&nbsp;Jenna&nbsp;are motivating our newest recruits as they instill&nbsp;in them&nbsp;what it means to be a Guardian.&nbsp;Things like&nbsp;developing&nbsp;the&nbsp;unique,&nbsp;technical skillsets&nbsp;that&nbsp;it takes to&nbsp;perform&nbsp;the&nbsp;mission&nbsp;in the space domain,&nbsp;and&nbsp;committing to&nbsp;our&nbsp;Guardian values&nbsp;of Character, Connection, Commitment, and Courage,&nbsp;and, of course,&nbsp;proudly&nbsp;singing&nbsp;that &ndash; oops, almost said Air Force&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;our&nbsp;Space Force song&nbsp;any time we can.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{31}" paraid="2000395350">I still sing the Air Force song.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{37}" paraid="2026926624">As Guardians leave&nbsp;their&nbsp;initial&nbsp;skills training&nbsp;and hit their duty stations, they are fired up and ready to execute!&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;incredibly&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;to witness. Our youngest Guardians are living out&nbsp;what was considered science fiction just&nbsp;a few&nbsp;years ago. They are&nbsp;the very&nbsp;vision&nbsp;of what it means to be a&nbsp;modern&nbsp;warfighter.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{87}" paraid="1644305577">That&nbsp;is the Guardian ethos in action.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{101}" paraid="1362780069">And because&nbsp;of that Guardian ethos, I am&nbsp;confident&nbsp;today&nbsp;that we have the world&rsquo;s greatest Space Force. But we&nbsp;remain&nbsp;clear-eyed that&nbsp;today&rsquo;s advantage cannot be assumed for tomorrow.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{131}" paraid="1590055083">Which&nbsp;brings me to my second priority. We must&nbsp;Arm&nbsp;and Grow&nbsp;the Guardian Force.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{149}" paraid="296189008">Space is both a&nbsp;battlefield and the backbone of&nbsp;our&nbsp;Joint Force.&nbsp;We&nbsp;face&nbsp;determined and credible adversaries&nbsp;who are building&nbsp;and fielding&nbsp;counterspace systems&nbsp;at incredible speeds&nbsp;to&nbsp;target&nbsp;directly&nbsp;the United States&rsquo; space advantage.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{191}" paraid="1080835413">That is why&nbsp;we&nbsp;don&rsquo;t&nbsp;just&nbsp;monitor&nbsp;the&nbsp;domain,&nbsp;we&nbsp;stand&nbsp;ready to defend&nbsp;it. So let&nbsp;me be&nbsp;crystal&nbsp;clear:&nbsp;Today, Guardians&nbsp;operate&nbsp;on-orbit&nbsp;weapons&nbsp;that can&nbsp;defend the Joint Force against&nbsp;space-enabled attacks.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{e9dedd06-bce2-4593-9092-978958532b8d}{243}" paraid="2085581798">And in the coming years, with the resources entrusted to us,&nbsp;(by the way,&nbsp;we need your help Congress)&nbsp;we&nbsp;will&nbsp;make&nbsp;disciplined&nbsp;and responsible choices about how we build and sustain our combat advantage. Which means&nbsp;scaling our ability to&nbsp;respond to threats.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{28}" paraid="1131563403">This means accelerating resilient space-based sensing&nbsp;and&nbsp;tracking architectures,&nbsp;like&nbsp;Airborne Moving Target Indication, or&nbsp;AMTI,&nbsp;to directly feed&nbsp;long-range Joint precision fires.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{66}" paraid="1783832572">&nbsp;It also&nbsp;means building operational concepts and designing a force&nbsp;that has&nbsp;the training&nbsp;and&nbsp;kit&nbsp;to out-think, out-maneuver, and out-fight any&nbsp;adversary&nbsp;so the&nbsp;President&nbsp;has&nbsp;credible options&nbsp;at the ready&nbsp;any time he needs them.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{102}" paraid="2081923594">Intentional growth in these areas&nbsp;today&nbsp;will&nbsp;provide&nbsp;tomorrow&rsquo;s&nbsp;combat advantage.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{124}" paraid="1448342539">This growth must happen quickly, and that&nbsp;starts with having the right organizational structures and&nbsp;the&nbsp;authorities in place to&nbsp;acquire&nbsp;and deliver capabilities to our warfighters.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{136}" paraid="801107050">We continue to overhaul&nbsp;our acquisition&nbsp;structure to strip away bureaucracy.&nbsp;We are, for example,&nbsp;empowering our Program Acquisition Executives, or PAEs, with&nbsp;increased authorities&nbsp;and&nbsp;the ability to make&nbsp;appropriate&nbsp;trades&nbsp;across their portfolios.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{170}" paraid="1470372527">And we are&nbsp;also ensuring&nbsp;they are directly tied to our requirements and missions, all&nbsp;to increase efficiency and build capacity&nbsp;where&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;needed.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{192}" paraid="729006415">Although we still have further to go in our acquisition transformation journey,&nbsp;we are&nbsp;already starting to see&nbsp;what&rsquo;s&nbsp;possible.&nbsp;Guardians right now&nbsp;are&nbsp;doing&nbsp;seemingly impossible&nbsp;things on unprecedented timelines.&nbsp;All throughout the country&nbsp;while partnering with industry,&nbsp;they&nbsp;are&nbsp;quickly&nbsp;turning requirements into fielded combat power.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{61597ae5-7b80-4936-8159-c74a406b321a}{250}" paraid="2058561795">I want to share a short story about Victus Haze. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, the Space Force routinely runs a series of &ldquo;Victus &rdquo; exercises that grow in complexity each year to test out different capabilities. This&nbsp;particular Victus Haze&nbsp;mission earlier this&nbsp;year&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;the ability to&nbsp;launch&nbsp;and respond&nbsp;to an on-demand&nbsp;to an on-orbit threat in&nbsp;just&nbsp;17&nbsp;hours.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{30ba3a81-7e6d-4671-bafa-aeccc448c1b9}{33}" paraid="2021625890">Space Systems Command,&nbsp;our industry partners, and Combat Forces Command&nbsp;proved to the world that if an adversary targets the United States Space Force, we have the capability to deliver a swift response and&nbsp;we&nbsp;are going to continue working on&nbsp;getting&nbsp;faster&nbsp;and faster.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{30ba3a81-7e6d-4671-bafa-aeccc448c1b9}{61}" paraid="1772134347">However, for&nbsp;Victus Haze&nbsp;to succeed, a few things had to happen.&nbsp;First, our acquisition and operational Guardians broke down legacy silos&nbsp;and&nbsp;displayed&nbsp;the&nbsp;great benefit&nbsp;of&nbsp;working together:&nbsp;to&nbsp;deliver&nbsp;systems at threat-pacing speed,&nbsp;so we can&nbsp;field&nbsp;systems that match the way we need to fight&nbsp;today.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{30ba3a81-7e6d-4671-bafa-aeccc448c1b9}{117}" paraid="955403898">Second, our&nbsp;industrial base&nbsp;responded,&nbsp;demonstrating&nbsp;that&nbsp;they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in this fight and&nbsp;that&nbsp;when the threat is immediate,&nbsp;they can&nbsp;help us deliver military&nbsp;spacepower&nbsp;on time.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{30ba3a81-7e6d-4671-bafa-aeccc448c1b9}{161}" paraid="1677256656">So today,&nbsp;I&rsquo;d&nbsp;like to&nbsp;acknowledge the Guardians&nbsp;and industry partners&nbsp;who made that happen.&nbsp;Some of&nbsp;whom&nbsp;are on the screen&nbsp;right here&nbsp;behind me:&nbsp;Mr. Brian Song, Captain&nbsp;George Eberwine,&nbsp;Captain&nbsp;Alyse Parker,&nbsp;1st Lieutenant Kristi Fortenberry, Tech&nbsp;Sergeant&nbsp;Gretchen&nbsp;Gregory,&nbsp;Sergeant Jeffrey Rickard, and Sergeant&nbsp;Kevin Thomas.&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{30ba3a81-7e6d-4671-bafa-aeccc448c1b9}{243}" paraid="102981447">So, as you can see, as&nbsp;we arm&nbsp;and grow&nbsp;the force,&nbsp;our third priority is clear:&nbsp;Integrating&nbsp;Guardian Power at Scale.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{16}" paraid="1106475110">Our Guardians&nbsp;have&nbsp;been tested several times this past year.&nbsp;When the order came for&nbsp;Epic Fury, the Space Force was a part of the decision calculus on whether we could execute the joint campaign&nbsp;at all;&nbsp;we were&nbsp;part of the minimum force package.&nbsp;This is the minimum force required that a commander considers when sending military forces into&nbsp;harm&rsquo;s&nbsp;way.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{56}" paraid="878624037">The Joint Force made it clear: without the Space Force&rsquo;s capabilities the Joint Force could not,&nbsp;and would not,&nbsp;move forward.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{70}" paraid="831189244">During&nbsp;Operation Epic Fury, our components,&nbsp;notably at&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;Central Command and Space Command,&nbsp;with support from components at European Command and Pacific Command,&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;that Guardians are not supporting from the sidelines as a &ldquo;nice to have&rdquo;.&nbsp;We are delivering&nbsp;spacepower&nbsp;directly into&nbsp;the fight as a &ldquo;need to have&rdquo;.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{110}" paraid="978044005">One of these impressive Guardians is&nbsp;Specialist&nbsp;Gray,&nbsp;who&nbsp;hails from Tampa, Florida. She joined&nbsp;the Space Force&nbsp;just&nbsp;two years ago&nbsp;but listen to the impact she made in her short term&nbsp;already.&nbsp;She&nbsp;deployed&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;CENTCOM&nbsp;AOR&nbsp;as part of&nbsp;the 42nd Electronic Warfare Detachment, and&nbsp;within hours&nbsp;of&nbsp;OEF&nbsp;kicking off, she received a priority target package&nbsp;with one critical&nbsp;objective&nbsp;&ndash; reconfigure her weapon system and execute&nbsp;critical&nbsp;non-kinetic fires.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{194}" paraid="129642537">With absolute focus&nbsp;on the mission, her world narrowed to a single screen and her&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;training took over. She locked onto the target,&nbsp;optimized&nbsp;her weapon system, and&nbsp;waged electromagnetic warfare against a determined adversary.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{212}" paraid="968217695">Even as Alarm Red sirens&nbsp;were blaring&nbsp;and incoming&nbsp;missiles&nbsp;targeted her site, she courageously held the line protecting forces, denying adversary capability, and delivering space effects until her commander had to&nbsp;literally&nbsp;pull&nbsp;her from the console to safety.&nbsp;And now, she is back&nbsp;at&nbsp;home station&nbsp;spending time with her spouse and her pets.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{03885cb1-b0b1-41ea-b994-6242449403a4}{248}" paraid="987891254">Specialist Gray is just one&nbsp;of the&nbsp;outstanding members&nbsp;of an entire enterprise of dedicated Guardians&nbsp;including the acquisition professionals that developed and fielded the weapon systems she&nbsp;operated, the intel Guardians that developed the targeting package&nbsp;that she used. And the&nbsp;Cyber Guardians&nbsp;who ensure communication connectivity and network defense for command and control, the Guardian instructors who trained her for combat, and the list goes on.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{a92ba7b3-5e37-4b83-8d74-0faf5eb67f4a}{21}" paraid="1641766592">All of&nbsp;these&nbsp;incredible Guardians, including the ones&nbsp;highlighted today,&nbsp;are&nbsp;bringing&nbsp;everything&nbsp;they&rsquo;ve&nbsp;got to the fight&nbsp;to&nbsp;make sure our Joint Force succeeds.&nbsp;Please give all Guardians a round of applause.&nbsp;[applause]&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{a92ba7b3-5e37-4b83-8d74-0faf5eb67f4a}{57}" paraid="1936042700">Alright, when we were&nbsp;talking&nbsp;about integrating Guardian power at scale, this is the kind of stuff we&rsquo;re talking about:&nbsp;embedding&nbsp;Guardians on the&nbsp;frontlines, delivering combat-critical&nbsp;forces to combatant commands,&nbsp;maturing capabilities through rapid acquisitions&nbsp;to&nbsp;stay ahead of threats, and&nbsp;bringing&nbsp;space expertise&nbsp;directly into&nbsp;the Joint&nbsp;battlespace.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{a92ba7b3-5e37-4b83-8d74-0faf5eb67f4a}{119}" paraid="2044370629">All to give&nbsp;combatant commanders&nbsp;like Admiral Cooper&nbsp;in Central Command&nbsp;the&nbsp;space capabilities&nbsp;needed to&nbsp;fight and win.&nbsp;That&rsquo;s&nbsp;our&nbsp;unique contribution to the Joint Force;&nbsp;that is the Guardian Advantage.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{a92ba7b3-5e37-4b83-8d74-0faf5eb67f4a}{161}" paraid="691346462">So,&nbsp;looking ahead, we&nbsp;must expand that advantage;&nbsp;we&nbsp;must&nbsp;build a&nbsp;sustained pipeline of&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;talent,&nbsp;equipped&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;appropriate training&nbsp;and&nbsp;equipped with the&nbsp;advanced&nbsp;capabilities&nbsp;to ensure our Joint Force&nbsp;is&nbsp;fully powered by space&nbsp;expertise.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{a92ba7b3-5e37-4b83-8d74-0faf5eb67f4a}{223}" paraid="728227577">We must ensure&nbsp;today, tomorrow, and for as long as we have the&nbsp;pleasure&nbsp;to serve,&nbsp;that our Joint Force&nbsp;can execute&nbsp;because Guardians are there,&nbsp;both at home and abroad, and in harm&rsquo;s way.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{2}" paraid="301112272">Yet, I am mindful that the&nbsp;Guardians&nbsp;are&nbsp;only as capable and resilient as the people who&nbsp;enable&nbsp;them. I know our&nbsp;department&nbsp;is working hard to&nbsp;accelerate our&nbsp;missions and expected growth. That growth is felt everywhere, even&nbsp;by our Air Force partners who stand&nbsp;with&nbsp;us,&nbsp;and most deeply by the families who&nbsp;serve&nbsp;alongside&nbsp;of&nbsp;us.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{52}" paraid="169614983">We ask our loved ones to navigate the stress of deployments, the uncertainty of rapid change, and the heavy demands of&nbsp;a&nbsp;military life.&nbsp;So, if we are to grow as one team, we must&nbsp;support the families who carry the weight of&nbsp;our service.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{76}" paraid="1451585995">That&rsquo;s&nbsp;why Debbie and I will focus on&nbsp;addressing&nbsp;stress points and strengthening the support networks needed to deliver the quality of life&nbsp;of&nbsp;our Guardians and&nbsp;our&nbsp;families&nbsp;and what they&nbsp;deserve.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{106}" paraid="1175564435">Debbie and I see you. We hear you.&nbsp;We&rsquo;ve&nbsp;been where you have been and we know&nbsp;that&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;not an easy life being a&nbsp;military family.&nbsp;That&rsquo;s&nbsp;why we need to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;that we work hard every day&nbsp;to make sure&nbsp;it is&nbsp;still&nbsp;a good and fulfilling life.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{136}" paraid="90452192">We are fully committed to finding the solutions. We want&nbsp;Guardians&nbsp;to step into the fight with absolute confidence&nbsp;knowing that our families are taken care of and secure.&nbsp;Our families are Guardian families,&nbsp;and we will ensure we do everything we can to take care of them.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{158}" paraid="440661692">So, as I start to wrap up,&nbsp;I&rsquo;ll&nbsp;leave you with&nbsp;something to&nbsp;reflect&nbsp;on as you continue to hear from leaders at this conference and even when you get back home to your own mission&nbsp;and your bases.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{178}" paraid="1382241991">Our aim is deterrence.&nbsp;Deterrence is strongest when we have a credible force and&nbsp;a&nbsp;resolve to&nbsp;do&nbsp;it&nbsp;and that is what the&nbsp;Space Force&nbsp;brings to you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{206}" paraid="755272497">A bad day&nbsp;in space is felt by&nbsp;everyone.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;felt by our&nbsp;Joint Force,&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;felt buy&nbsp;our&nbsp;nation&rsquo;s&nbsp;economy, and&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;felt by&nbsp;citizens&nbsp;all around that rely on space capabilities.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{3390baab-f72a-47fa-9610-f0a916d71f85}{238}" paraid="695497345">Guardians, we&nbsp;cannot fail.&nbsp;And&nbsp;we&nbsp;know&nbsp;that&nbsp;we&nbsp;won&rsquo;t.&nbsp;And I know&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&rsquo;re&nbsp;going to get after it. Because&nbsp;each and every&nbsp;day, we want&nbsp;our adversaries&nbsp;to wake up&nbsp;and&nbsp;look at the Space Force&nbsp;and the Joint Force&nbsp;and say: &ldquo;Today is not the&nbsp;day to&nbsp;take on the United States and our resolve.&rdquo;&nbsp;Because we&nbsp;won&rsquo;t&nbsp;let you.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{007e6c65-0b5e-4fe4-866f-ae8eededc721}{39}" paraid="1401727232">We deter from a position of strength. It&nbsp;is responsibility and privilege that comes with being a Guardian. We are&nbsp;entrusted with something extraordinary: a&nbsp;critical domain and an outstanding mission&nbsp;that&nbsp;determines&nbsp;whether the Joint Force can fight at scale and precision&nbsp;so that we can get after our nation&rsquo;s business.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{007e6c65-0b5e-4fe4-866f-ae8eededc721}{65}" paraid="670991637">We are battle-tested,&nbsp;we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;seen that,&nbsp;and combat-proven. But we cannot stop here.&nbsp;The threat is&nbsp;evolving.&nbsp;So how do we do that?&nbsp;By Forging&nbsp;our&nbsp;Guardian Ethos;&nbsp;we&nbsp;are one team delivering and employing warfighting capabilities and combat effects.&nbsp;We need to do that by arming&nbsp;and growing&nbsp;our&nbsp;Guardian Force;&nbsp;we&nbsp;will&nbsp;ensure our force is combat-ready, equipped with the resilient systems needed to deter conflict and, if necessary,&nbsp;to&nbsp;fight and win.&nbsp;And&nbsp;we do that&nbsp;by Integrating&nbsp;Guardian Power at Scale, we&nbsp;guarantee that America,&nbsp;our allies,&nbsp;and&nbsp;our&nbsp;partners&nbsp;have the space&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;and capabilities&nbsp;to allow the success of the Joint and Combined Force.&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{007e6c65-0b5e-4fe4-866f-ae8eededc721}{159}" paraid="1556659477">We do that by delivering space superiority. We do that by ensuring we get after our&nbsp;nation&rsquo;s interests in,&nbsp;from, and&nbsp;to&nbsp;space.&nbsp;We must&nbsp;Build&nbsp;the Force&nbsp;our&nbsp;Nation Needs&nbsp;today, tomorrow, and&nbsp;every time our&nbsp;nation calls. We will be ready.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p paraeid="{007e6c65-0b5e-4fe4-866f-ae8eededc721}{205}" paraid="1839432097">AFA,&nbsp;thanks for&nbsp;everything you do.&nbsp;Everyone&nbsp;here, thanks for being here;&nbsp;continue to&nbsp;enjoy the conference, the&nbsp;opportunity to hear from senior leaders and catch up with colleagues. I look forward to serving&nbsp;with you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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