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Mar 31, 2025

Improving Sense-Making with Artificial Intelligence

As part of the Department of the Air Force’s efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology, RAND researchers identified the most significant sense-making challenges and assessed how AI capabilities could address these challenges.
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Mar 24, 2025

Chinese Military Views of Low Earth Orbit: Proliferation, Starlink, and Desired Countermeasures

The authors draw on open-source literature across the Chinese defense enterprise to assess People's Liberation Army perspectives of low earth orbit (LEO) as a warfighting domain and the systems being deployed in LEO, especially Starlink.
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Feb 11, 2025

Operational and Policy Implications of Integrating Commercial Space Services into U.S. Department of Defense Operations

In this congressionally directed report, the authors explore the implications of the use of commercial space services by the U.S. Department of Defense, such as impacts on space operations and the national and international policy environment.
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Jan 21, 2025

Exploring Factors for U.S.-Russia Crisis Stability in Space

In this report, the author seeks to better understand Russia's perspectives on the space domain and crisis stability and explores the issue of escalation in space between the United States and Russia.
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Dec 4, 2024

The Space Enterprise and Integrated Deterrence

In this paper, the authors examine in what ways space capabilities and vulnerabilities shape deterrence outcomes, specifically those laid out by the concept of integrated deterrence.
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Nov 21, 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Space Domain Awareness: Characterizing the Impact on Mission Effectiveness

This report characterizes the nature of the impact that artificial intelligence and machine learning tools could bring to the U.S. Space Force's space domain awareness mission, with a focus on the process to quantify the risk of collision in space.
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Nov 20, 2024

Filling the General Officer Ranks in the U.S. Space Force: Overcoming Promotions Challenges in a Small Service

Because of its small size, the U.S. Space Force will likely have some difficulty with filling its general officer ranks. This brief summarizes options that could improve the effectiveness of general officer promotions in the U.S. Space Force.
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Oct 22, 2024

Navigating the Kármán Line: Integrating Military Air and Space

In 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense established the U.S. Space Force (USSF), a separate armed service for space. The authors of this report seek to understand potential areas of friction that might arise between the USSF and other entities.
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Sep 30, 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Space Domain Awareness: The Development of Two Artificial Intelligence Case Studies

This report documents the feasibility of artificial intelligence and machine learning when applied to the U.S. Space Force and space domain awareness mission to predict and classify resident space objects’ future trajectories and conjunction events.
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Sep 16, 2024

Assessing the Impact of U.S. Air Force National Security Space Launch Acquisition Decisions: 2023 Update

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is tasked by Congress to support the U.S. space launch industrial base and sustain robust launch capability. In this report, the authors explore how recent market dynamics impact USSF's ability to fulfill this charge.
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Sep 10, 2024

Enabling Human Security from Space: Using Space Force Capabilities to Better Humanity

The authors highlight how the U.S. Space Force (USSF) is uniquely qualified to contribute to enhancing human security and can bring unique capabilities to military commanders to promote human security in USSF operations.
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Aug 29, 2024

The Department of the Air Force and Integrated Deterrence

This report offers insights into the Department of the Air Force’s role in meeting the objectives of the National Defense Strategy generally and the core concept of integrated deterrence specifically.

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