GE2VaSh75_5yw1JUuhu1nUhvgPxj-03X8PFIIGc65Wqz0y7xOFz2Hyn-RVfjDZo3XPGI3Ps55V80.xIUvFw1Xynjq”>in a recent commentary. Molland, the CTO of Shield Space, wrote that by declining to list space control as a dedicated funding category, the U.K. “gives itself no route to back the companies building these systems or to buy what they produce.”

 

“The forthcoming defense space policy should state how the U.K. will field counterspace, with a budget attached, rather than deferring the question again,” Molland wrote. “Until it does, the U.K. has committed to controlling a domain while paying only to watch and service it, which is all show and no go.”

 

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