""Now, high-quality space systems are mandatory, but they're not relevant if we wait for them to be near-perfect before we put them in the hands of warfighters,""
""Effective systems don't require perfection to be combat credible,""
""I've been doing this a long time, so I know kind of what the constraints are, but I'm very optimistic that there's still places we can do better.""
Beijing's nationally coordinated space program is rapidly closing its technological gap with the United States. The Trump administration reduced NASA resources, weakening US technical abilities in space. Pentagon officials and war hawks are seeking quick fixes to plug capability gaps, prioritizing faster fielding over perfection. Space Force chief Chance Saltzman called for putting less-than-perfect but effective systems into warfighters' hands and emphasized quantity over waiting for near-perfect systems. Pentagon acquisitions have historically favored expensive, bespoke hardware over commercial solutions, raising costs for taxpayers and inflating the military-industrial complex. US leaders appear divided over confronting China versus other priorities.
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