Whether Congress goes along with President Donald Trump's plan to establish a Space Force, the nation is prepared to protect and advance its dominance in space, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said in a Dec. 3 interview. The winner of SpaceNews' 2018 military space Government Leader of the Year award, Wilson is piloting the Air Force into the new year amid great uncertainty about how the service's space forces might be reorganized under a separate branch. She is insistent that the Air Force is keeping focused on the space mission while supporting the Trump administration's proposal — to be submitted to Congress in the coming weeks — to stand up a new military branch for space in fiscal year 2020. A central effort is what Wilson calls "defendable space," a broad term that describes programs and tactics to protect U.S. satellites from enemy attacks.
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