Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Credit: NAS

The National Academy of Sciences has released National Security Space Defense and Protection: Public Report (2016).

At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced two classified reports that assess currently available options for addressing threats to space systems and recommend strategies for increasing resiliency.

The public report is an unclassified summary that discusses key background and policy issues featured in the reports.

Shaping the future

Highlighted in the report, a set of priorities:

• Develop a clear vision—or perhaps alternative options—of what the United States wants the future in space to be.
• Understand the extent to which the United States can shape that future, and the extent to which the future is subject to actions and activities beyond the control of the U.S. government and its allies.
• Identify and develop prudent methods to counter existing, evolving, and emerging threats to U.S. interests in space.
• Assess those methods in terms of how they affect the future in space and the ability and the commitment of the United States to shaping that future.

The study is available as a free download here:

https://www.nap.edu/download/23594

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Also, another report has caught my eye regarding civilian use of classified assets:

Credit: NAS