Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: 'Space Secrets Becoming Harder To Keep'

Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Credit: DoD

Space News: Senior military official: Space secrets becoming harder to keep

Gen. Selva: U.S. space capabilities are increasingly easier to track and monitor.

WASHINGTON — The United States is right to be worried about competitors catching up in the race for space supremacy, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Paul Selva said Tuesday.

Defending space is hard because U.S. secrets are out in the open, Selva said during a breakfast meeting with reporters.“We’ve yielded an awful lot of ground to the Russians and the Chinese in space security.”

Space and cyber warfare experts like Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, have warned that China and Russia are developing “counter space capabilities” such as electronic jammers and advanced signal scramblers specifically to target U.S. military satellites.

Selva said he agrees with Hyten about the seriousness of these threats. But even more alarming, he said, is the idea that U.S. space capabilities are becoming easier to track and attack if someone were determined to do it.

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WNU Editor:  I would say that "ALL" secrets are becoming harder to keep.