Army budget prioritizes counterspace for first time

The Army for the first time has included counterspace capabilities as a top priority in its five-year budget program starting in fiscal 2027 as it moves closer to establishing a new space branch, according to senior officials.

“This year during program budget review, we included counterspace capabilities for the first time in our strategic priority list. Again, that’s the Army prioritizing how important these consequential capabilities are in making sure that they get the requisite resources, a really consequential action,” Col. Pete Atkinson, space division chief at the Army Strategic Operations Directorate, said today during the annual Association of the US Army (AUSA) conference here in Washington, DC.

He stressed that the Army transformation memo signed by Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth in April actually calls out counterspace as one of several “consequential mission areas to accelerate” work on, along with precision long-range fires, air and missile defense capability, cyber, and electronic warfare.

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