Space Force’s 15-year vision calls for more personnel, simulators and survivability

Adrian Bogdan

The Space Force must expand in order to accomplish its mission, says the service’s new Objective Force plan , a 100-page document outlining a vision for its structure and doctrine through 2040. “The Space Force will require significant additional manpower and specialized expertise to generate Space Control forces able to conduct sustained operations at a global scale,” the plan says. For example, the Space Domain Awareness mission “will demand additional analysts, operators, and engineering