This past spring the United States Space Force published two highly anticipated, forward-looking documents: Future Operating Environment 2040 and Objective Force 2040. When Chief of Space Operations General B. Chance Saltzman unveiled these documents at this year’s Space Symposium, he declared the service’s intention was for them to “drive questions, not provide answers.” As such, Guardians, the Joint Force and the Space Force’s international and industry partners were encouraged to engage, debate and provide feedback in a ‘campaign of learning’ to evaluate what the future space domain might look like and define the Space Force’s future force design requirements.  

In this month's episode of "The Elara Edge,” Founding Partner Mike Dickey and Executive Partner Lt Gen (Ret) Bill Liquori share their key takeaways from the Future Operating Environment 2040 and Objective Force 2040 documents released by the Space Force earlier this year at Space Symposium. Mike is the former Chief Architect of the United States Space Force and Bill is the first Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Strategy, Plans, Programs and Analysis for the Space Force. 

"The Elara Edge" is hosted and produced by Scott King of Elara Nova. The full story can be found on Elara Nova's Insights page here. Music was produced by Patrick Watkins of PW Audio.