Foreign ties are crucial to US space dominance, officials say

Expanding and strengthening U.S. military ties with space-capable nations will be key to staying ahead in the global competition for space dominance, officials said Tuesday. 

“Space warfare is a complex and difficult type of warfare in general, and not a type of warfare that one country can do by themselves. And so we know that we need partners to be able to help us to do the things that we need to do, to be able to cover all the space terrain and the challenges that we have,” Col. Frank Brooks, the Air Force’s deputy director for space international affairs, said Tuesday during a panel at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space, Cyber conference. 

One example is the trilateral Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, or DARC, which tracks activity including space debris and adversarial behavior, shared between the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom. 

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