Charles Galbreath
Recent stories by Charles Galbreath
The Pentagon Needs a Strategy for Deep Space
Nestled within the 720 pages of the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 are a few short paragraphs directing a briefing “on a strategy for DOD’s activities and interests in cislunar space.” There are grave national ...
Make The Right Decision: Consolidate Space Units into a Single Component
The Space Force rightly wants to consolidate the Department’s entire space portfolio. Resistance has been strong. But a measure now in Congress would formalize the Space Force vision to unify the space missions now fulfilled by the Air Guard into the Space Force. Congress should ...
The Space Based Environmental Monitoring Modernization Imperative: Weather Counts
Military missions in the air, on land, and at sea demand robust, timely weather information. On-orbit space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) systems are a critical source of this data, but years of underfunding, delayed, curtailed, and canceled modernization programs have left the SBEM enterprise in a ...