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BERLIN—The coming NATO summit in Ankara is likely to generate a push for more clarity around what space capabilities will be needed in the future, the alliance’s top military officer said.
“I anticipate, and my military advice would be, we need to think about what are the space and cyberspace capabilities that we ought to start thinking about asking allies to develop,” NATO Supreme Allied Commander (Saceur) U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich said at an Atlantic Bridge event at the ILA Berlin Air Show here. Those would then be presented to Saceur, he said.
Grynkewich said it was too early to tell if satellite systems would at some point become part of the NATO Force Model under which countries pledge specific capabilities that they will provide to the alliance.
NATO embarked on a push to do more in space in 2019 when it adapted a space strategy and declared it a warfighting domain. “We expect space to be a contested domain in any future conflict,” Grynkewich said, echoing comments from military space leaders in the U.S., Germany and among many other alliance members.
Grynkewich noted that there are also several multilateral activities within NATO to foster allied cooperation in space activities. “We’re looking to expand that across the alliance,” he said.
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