Arlington, VA | February 19, 2025 — The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce a new entry in its Research Studies series, Ensuring a Spacepower Advantage in Prolonged Competition: Findings and Recommendations from the Space Endurance Workshop by Col Charles Galbreath, USSF (Ret.), and Col Jennifer reeves, USAF (Ret.), Senior Resident Fellows for Space Studies at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE).

The United States, its allies, and its partners must have the capabilities and authorities to conduct defensive and offensive military operations in, from, and to space. Adversary threats leave no other choice. Without the means to counter threats in the domain, the United States will lose its critical space advantage in the ongoing competition.

Over the course of a two-day, unclassified workshop, the Mitchell Institute brought together 55 space subject matter experts with diverse backgrounds to examine how the United States, its allies, and partners can maintain an enduring spacepower advantage. The workshop findings reinforced that the U.S. Space Force’s current lines of effort are critical and must be expanded. This includes improving space domain awareness, space architecture resilience, and reforming security classification policies. Appropriately authorizing, organizing, training, and equipping America’s Guardians to deliver war-winning military effects in, from, and to space is the best way to secure an enduring peace.

The Mitchell Institute’s Research Studies serve as an authoritative avenue for innovative, in-depth, insightful, and effective ideas and solutions for strengthening America’s aerospace power.

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