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Air Force Needs To Think About More Resilient Space Architectures, Fanning Says

Friday, November 15th, 2013

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The Air Force needs to think of ways that don’t necessarily involve offensive capability to protect its space assets as space becomes increasingly congested, the service’s top civilian said yesterday. “We have to think about how we protect what we have up there, which doesn’t have to mean some offensive capability,” Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said yesterday at the Defense One summit in Washington. “It just means an architecture that is harder for an adversary to take out…

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