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            <h1 class="title">Transcript: Gen. Whiting keynote at Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Sep. 16, 2026 (As Delivered) </h1>
            
            
            
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        <div class="body">Well, aloha and good morning. Thank you, Victoria, for that kind introduction, and thank you to the Amos organizers for the invitation to speak to you today. It&#39;s always a pleasure to come to the annual AMOS conference and to Maui, a state I lived in 50 years ago. That&#39;s astounding to even say one of the most beautiful and special places, not only in our United States but around the world, and I&#39;m thrilled to be here because all of you in this room are shaping the future of space domain awareness. Often, when the media asks me about our space domain awareness programs, they want me to spill the beans on what our sensors are tracking. You know how many alien civilizations have visited Earth, and just how many spacecraft did crash at Roswell? And I always have to disappoint them and say, &quot;no, it&#39;s not a UFO or an alien spacecraft. It&#39;s just another zombie rocket booster from 1978 tumbling around like Sandra Bullock in &#39;Gravity,&#39; falling into the void without a spacesuit or a sequel.&quot; All right, but between you and me, if we do ever find ET, I just hope he or she has a valid orbital data request filed with the 18th Space Defense Squadron and an active UDL account. Now, in all seriousness, the term Space Domain Awareness, or SDA, can often feel broad and vague, and it&#39;s frequently confused with an older term, Space Situational Awareness, or SSA. When we discuss SDA, we tend to overlook essential functions like space weather monitoring, intelligence gathering, targeting, and battle damage assessment, each critical to enabling effective space warfighting. Both concepts, SDA and SSA, have deep historical roots. But today, I want to highlight some key differences to underscore a vital truth: SDA truly is the bedrock of space control. Many of us are familiar with Sun Tzu&#39;s timeless wisdom: know the enemy and know yourself. You need not fear the result of 100 battles. This is according to one translation. However, I think many of us forget about the second half of that statement: know the terrain, know the weather, your victory will be complete. To me, that&#39;s precisely the continued evolution we need in the realm of space domain awareness. How do we move beyond positional states into target quality tracks and battle space awareness. Consider the parallels to terrestrial warfare. Just as knowing the lay of the land in a desert campaign, winds, dunes, and supply lines can turn the tide, in space we must grasp the terrain of orbits, the weather of solar flares, and the survivability of sustained space maneuver and on-orbit servicing of satellites. This isn&#39;t abstract philosophy; it&#39;s a call to integrate multi-domain insights into true space dominance. Space is no longer just the final frontier; it&#39;s a contested warfighting domain where battles can be won or lost in the orbital arcs first defined by Kepler. At the heart of our ability to maintain space control lies the indispensable foundation of comprehensive space domain awareness. Without it, we&#39;re navigating blind in an environment where opponents can strike from above, disrupt communications, and attack our satellites in an instant. Some of us are familiar with the related concept of space situational awareness, as defined in Joint Publication 3-14, which is the joint doctrine for space operations. Quote: SSA is the requisite foundational current and predictive knowledge and characterization of space orbital objects and the space domain. SSA provides that critical baseline. It&#39;s our eyes on the skies, tracking everything from friendly assets to potential threats, as well as all of the debris we&#39;ve accumulated on orbit since 1957. However, space domain awareness elevates this process further, converting raw data into actionable information and, in turn, into strategic intelligence that enables the effective projection of power. It delivers timely, relevant, and actionable understanding of the operational environment, empowering military forces to plan with precision, integrate operations seamlessly, execute with competence, and assess outcomes effectively. In essence, SDA isn&#39;t just awareness; it&#39;s the strategic edge that turns information into dominance. To illustrate, think of SSA as the radar sweep on a ship, spotting other ships on the horizon. I&#39;m sorry. Think of SSA as the radar sweep on that ship.<br />
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SDA is the full intelligence brief, identifying the vessel&#39;s nationality, armament, intent, and even its radio chatter, all synthesized to inform the captain&#39;s next move. Back in 2007, China conducted a direct ascent ASAT test to destroy one of its own defunct weather satellites. I happened to be sitting in a small room at then Vandenberg Air Force Base, monitoring this test with a team of some of the best in our business, names you would recognize like Willie Shelton, Chance Salzman, Deanna Burt, and Todd Brost. While the physical debris created by that hit-to-kill test created and remains a persistent hazard for global spaceflight, the geopolitical shock waves was deeper. It proved that space was no longer a sanctuary. In that moment, we began our transition from space situational awareness to space domain awareness. Now, why did this happen? Traditional SSA could track the debris field, but it could not proactively predict the intent of the weapon system before the kinetic impact, it was at that point that our community realized that the world had changed, and that it was not enough just to track and react to debris. We must anticipate and characterize adversarial capabilities. Fast forward to today, and with 10s of 1000s of objects on orbit requiring monitoring, SDA must process vast amounts of data to discern threats amid the noise. Looking back at traditional U.S. joint military doctrine, especially earlier versions of Joint Pub 3-14, space control was built on four essential pillars: surveillance of space to monitor threats, protection to safeguard our assets, prevention to deter hostile actions, and negation to neutralize dangers when necessary. These functions form the foundation of how we thought about operating in space during a less contested era. Fast forward to today, and U.S. Space Force doctrine has breathed new life into this vital mission. Publications like Space Force Doctrine Document One, the Space Warfighting Framework, reaffirm space control as a cornerstone function, one that is more relevant now than ever in the age of great power competition. As JP 3-14 indicates, space control includes counter-space activities, sustainable use of space, and deterrence. It encompasses the full spectrum of activities needed to actively contest and control the space domain, with the ultimate goal of achieving space superiority. This isn&#39;t passive defense; it&#39;s proactive warfighting that includes active or passive measures, kinetic or non-kinetic fires, and reversible or non-reversible effects. At its core, space control involves offensive and defensive actions, collectively known as counter-space operations. These are executed across three key segments on orbit, where satellites operate and maneuver, the link segment through which our communications and data flows, and the terrestrial segment, the ground-based infrastructure which enables our space operations. In this high-stakes arena, every decision counts. Space control isn&#39;t about holding the high ground, it&#39;s about understanding the battle space to maintain the competitive advantage. The classic four-element framework-surveillance, protection, prevention, and negation-continues to provide the most straightforward and historically grounded doctrinal response to the enduring question: What constitutes the essential elements of space control? Even as the terminology has evolved and our priorities have been refined in light of the domain&#39;s contested environment, this framework remains foundational. As the former director of DARPA, Robert S. Cooper, once noted, SDA encompasses space surveillance and Star Wars technologies-a recognition that while SSA is important, we must continue to innovate and adapt to grow that awareness into decision advantage. These elements underpin the core mission of space control, ensuring unrestricted freedom of maneuver in space for the United States and our allies, while on command, denying that same advantage to adversaries, the ultimate objective is space superiority-that critical level of dominance which enables seamless operations at any time and in any location, while safeguarding against disruptive interference from terrestrial or space-based threats. Let&#39;s dig deeper into these four elements of space control in a little bit more detail. Surveillance of space forms the foundation, delivering current and predictive insights into space objects, the operational environment, threats, and activities. This encompasses the detection, tracking, identification, characterization, and analysis required to underpin the other elements. A critical facet of space surveillance in support of space control is the sustained monitoring of adversary order of battle assets, especially those capable of endangering our systems.<br />
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SDA advances beyond mere cataloging to discerning intent, it extends past classic space situational awareness, knowing a satellite&#39;s location, to evaluating its capabilities, observing its maneuvers, and assessing whether it represents an active threat, such as co-orbital ASATs or electromagnetic jammers. Surveillance characterizes the threats and enables attribution of hostile acts. Without eyes on the domain, hostile actions cannot be verified. In space, a satellite failure could be caused by space weather, a system malfunction, or a deliberate attack. The same goes for the ground and link segments. We must be able to distinguish between natural interference, a system malfunction, or an adversary intentionally jamming our systems. SDA provides the forensic data required to attribute attacks, which is the prerequisite for any defensive or offensive response, and helps us avoid the possibility of surprise. Now, I&#39;d be remiss if I didn&#39;t highlight the urgent need to integrate allied and commercial capabilities, deepen partnerships with industry for space domain awareness, and harness AI and machine learning to outpace adversaries in closing surveillance gaps. Crucially, we must embed this fusion directly into our core SDA programs of record, not rely on fragmented data streams that overburden our space warfighters&#39; cognitive processing. By synthesizing inputs from diverse sources, we&#39;re slashing detection times dramatically, from minutes to seconds in some cases. And AI isn&#39;t some distant fantasy. It&#39;s already revolutionizing our operations by sifting through massive data sets to forecast conjunctions with pinpoint accuracy, predict adversarial satellite maneuvers before they unfold, and detect anomalous behaviors that signal potential threats, such as co-orbital rendezvous or jamming attempts. For instance, machine learning algorithms are now analyzing historical orbital patterns to attribute intent to objects in real time, distinguishing benign debris from deliberate counter-space weapons, and giving us the decisive edge in increasingly congested orbits, the next element, protection, includes both active and passive defensive measures to ensure U.S. and friendly space systems perform as designed, overcoming opponent attempts to negate them and minimizing damage from attacks across space, ground, and link segments. The first element of victory for U.S. Space Command is the ability to operate through a first strike from an undeterred adversary. We&#39;ve seen in recent conflicts the adversary&#39;s intent and ability to target our military infrastructure. Large fixed space-related sites become large fixed targets, which can and will be struck by over-the-horizon fires. We must consider how to disaggregate and proliferate our architectures, both in space and on the ground, in order to protect our critical capabilities. Scenarios we&#39;ve seen in recent real-world operations like strikes on ground facilities highlight vulnerabilities, but proliferated low Earth orbit networks demonstrate resilience, delivering communications even under active attempts to deny those comms. Passive measures like hardening against environmental threats and active ones like space maneuvers are non-negotiables. Defensive space control, another way of saying protection in space, is wholly reliant on space domain awareness to ensure satellite operators and command and control centers have all the requisite information for rapid battle management and response. Timely operational intelligence is predicated on accurate SDA, and is foundational to our ability to orchestrate coordinated satellite operations to confuse the red targeting solution and to deter attacks. From the U.S. Space Command perspective, we need to understand not only the options available on orbit but also on the ground. Do our satellite communication users have a primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency communications plan, what we call a pace plan? Do we have other ways to deliver positioning, navigation, and timing in a contested environment? We may choose not to turn off payload operations or move a satellite out of harm&#39;s way to protect warfighters in a conflict or during an active operation. However, whenever possible, we want to maintain strategic advantage and space superiority. Initiatives like the Space Forces Space Data Network Transport Layer are building mesh networks that use optical inter-satellite links to communicate using lasers rather than jamming susceptible RF signals, this makes it ideal for warfighter use, as it connects with existing systems like Link 16 and IBS, while also employing a proliferated architecture that complicates our adversary&#39;s targeting solutions and builds resiliency. The math is compelling: an adversary targeting a large constellation must account for numerous nodes, raising the cost of aggression exponentially. But we must be clear-eyed, as our opponents will respond to the resilience that P-LEO constellations have brought us, and we should expect these constellations to face more effective threats in the future.<br />
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The third element of space control is prevention. This includes measures to preclude an opponent from taking hostile action against U.S. allied or third-party space systems and services, ranging from deterrence and diplomacy to military actions, prevention is a key aspect of space control. A combat-credible space control capability first serves as a powerful deterrent. Integrating commercial and allied partners into our core architecture is also vital to deterrence. By combining distributed commercial systems with sovereign allied capabilities, we create a highly resilient network that creates multiple dilemmas to the adversary&#39;s targeting calculus. Diplomatic efforts like the U.S.-led Artemis Accords are also building a coalition across dozens upon dozens of nations to baseline responsible space activities. These types of cooperative efforts complicate the battlefield for those who are used to executing irresponsible space operations. When prevention and awareness are not enough, we must consider negation measures to deceive, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy an opponent&#39;s space systems or services at U.S. Space Command we take seriously our responsibilities to defend American interests in space. This includes maintaining domain awareness of the Space AOR. It includes protecting our critical satellite systems upon which the defense of our nation is so dependent, as well as preventing attacks upon those systems, but when called upon, we also are ready to negate any threat which seeks to do harm to our space systems, because the joint force retains on orbit space control weapons capable of defending the United States and its interests against hostile adversary actions. To be able to negate threats in space, we must be able to find, fix, track, and target those threats. Targeting in the space domain is maturing, but it still has a long way to go. For example, we don&#39;t yet have full, mature target folders for all space targets that we care about, like the joint force does in other domains. In addition, once a target is engaged, we need to have real-time battle space awareness in order to execute battle management. Finally, assessment will be key to understanding restrike decisions and to provide a clear risk assessment to our supported forces, and as we expand our operations into cis-lunar space and beyond, we must ensure our space domain awareness architecture is scalable. Otherwise, we risk leaving deep space unmonitored and vulnerable to exploitation by our opponents. All these elements I&#39;ve discussed need to account for operations beyond GEO. Currently, we lack PNT, SATCOM, or even a standard format for discussing positional states in cislunar space. This represents a concern, and U.S. Space Command is focused on addressing it. In looking ahead, I envision a future in which SDA is fully automated, with quantum sensors tracking hard-to-detect threats and blockchain-secured data sharing among allies. But this requires investment now in R&amp;D, training, and partnerships. Your work here at AMOS is pivotal. And as I close, let me return to where. We began shaping the future of space domain awareness here at the AMOS Conference. Remember the hope I shared of ET filing a valid orbital data request? Well, in space, the operating environment that we now find ourselves in, whether it&#39;s tracking friendly assets, debris from the 2007 Chinese ASAT test, or the next potential adversary maneuver, comprehensive SDA is our ultimate validator, ensuring we know the full picture before any action unfolds. Just as Sun Tzu reminded us to know the enemy, ourselves, the terrain, and the weather, to ensure complete victory, SDA integrates these multidisciplinary insights to turn orbital data into actionable intelligence that underpins surveillance, protection, prevention, and negation. Without it, we&#39;re navigating blind in a contested domain where threats can emerge from any orbit or angle. It&#39;s not enough to sustain the current balance, we must innovate and advance our capabilities to ensure space remains a place where the United States and our allies can continue to explore and advance scientific knowledge, where we expand our economies by leveraging the unique vantage point and resources of space, and where we can defend our way of life and national interests. I challenge each of you, innovators, engineers, and leaders in this room, to accelerate technology delivery and forge resilient architectures that scale from VLEO to cis-lunar space and beyond. At U.S. Space Command, many of our key priorities are focused on SDA and related capabilities, areas like self-defense of our high-value assets, countering adversary proliferated architectures, joint integrated command and control, and dedicated space domain awareness for space engagement are just a few of the capabilities that will be the linchpins for our future space operations. SDA generates options for our forces. Space superiority is built on SDA as the indispensable enabler of space control, empowering us to stand ready against any adversary, defend our critical assets, and prevail in the face of threats for our nation, the joint force and our allies. Thank you for all you do to ensure America remains at the leading edge of space innovation, the space economy, space defense, and space advantage. And I look forward to answering any questions you may have. Thank you.<br />
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