NATO has begun talks at the high-level military committee about how to define the alliance’s policy and plans on space as the group of 32 states looks to make the domain a more formal part of its military strategy.
The alliance is looking to make space part of NATO's Defense Planning Process (NDPP), which outlines the capabilities members contribute to the group. “I am very keen, and as I briefed the military committee yesterday, I want us to be bold, broad and imaginative in what we ask for here,” Air Chief Marshal Johnny Stringer, deputy supreme allied commander, told the Royal Aeronautical Society Sept. 29.
NATO updates the defense planning process on a roughly four-year basis.
Stringer said he also told the military committee, which includes the members’ 32 defense chiefs, that they need to grow their space staff for their own benefit and that of the alliance.
In addition to determining what military space effects NATO wants to generate, Stringer said the alliance must consider commercial space, specifically, “what it is [that] we will need to do, to make sure we are protecting that for the benefit of everybody.”
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