The U.S. intelligence community is updating its assessment of space warfare capabilities of Russia and China.
Air Force General John Hyten requested the National Intelligence Estimate before he left his prior command at the U.S. Strategic Command, while the Defense Department’s space policy chief Steve Kitay said at a conference last month that “the threats really are at an all-time high and expanding.”
According to Bloomberg, those concerns will be reinforced this week by the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its annual report to be released November 14.
Reflecting such concerns, the Pentagon requested $14.1 billion for an expanded national security space budget for the current 2020 fiscal year.
