A member of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force is assigned to Vandenberg Air Force Base with the multispace collaboration cell as part of the Combined Force Space Component Command. force aims to do more work with Japan’s newly established space unit. The Space Force has just signed a memorandum of understanding to place a hosted payload on a Japanese satellite to provide space domain awareness. Japan specifically has been a focal point of the partnership effort, the general allowed. leadership in space is resonating across the globe,” he declared. “There is a significant understanding of the importance of space, and U.S. The general cited France, Japan and the United Kingdom as three of these nations. After the Space Force was stood up, several countries followed suit by elevating their own space operations within their national defense organizations. Space Force was stood up, and NATO followed by establishing a space center at NATO Air Command at Ramstein, Germany. Raymond continued that NATO declared space an operational domain shortly before the U.S. “We’ve elevated America’s leadership in space further in global partnerships and alliances.” “One of the key folks we integrate with are our allied partners,” he said. The coming year’s focus will be on integrating the Space Force with others, and that includes foreign nations. In its one year of operation, the Space Force has stepped up to its service-level responsibilities, the general continued. “That’s what services do, and I told my team to build that force with coalition partners in mind from the beginning.” Once that force is designed and built, it would welcome the opportunity to partner with international partners.” “One of the critical pieces of work the Space Force is doing this year is to develop a force designed for space,” Gen. Commercial space also is a partner, he added. These include the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and other civil agencies. The general added that the Space Force has been a unifying force across the Defense Department and among agencies. “The United States is a spacefaring nation, and we’ve long known that access to space and freedom to maneuver in space underpin all the instruments of our national power,” he declared.
Raymond stated that the United States is stronger as a nation with a stable and secure space domain.
Speaking at a Defense Writers Group media roundtable, Gen. example in giving space an increased priority as a warfighting domain. John Raymond, USSF, noted that some nations even followed the U.S. Space Force has led to more advanced cooperation in the space domain with existing and new partners, according to the force’s chief of space operations.
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