Important Takeaways:

• The Space Force will play an important role in the Department of Defense’s efforts to build a missile defense shield over the U.S., Space Force’s chief of space operations announced recently.
• On Monday, Gen. Chance Saltzman said Space Force would jump into action to help accomplish the goals in President Trump’s space-oriented executive orders, including one from January focused on building an “Iron Dome for America.”
• Saltzman added that Space Force had already established an integrated planning team to investigate options related to the Iron Dome executive order.
• Trump signed the executive order in January, ordering the Pentagon to develop a newer and more advanced version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield. The order would build upon preexisting missile defense technology such as the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program, developed by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
• “Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near peer adversaries of next-generation delivery systems and their own homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities,” Mr. Trump’s more executive order reads.

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