1 00:00:01,325 --> 00:00:04,158 (inspiring music) 2 00:00:07,971 --> 00:00:12,530 - In the past we operated in a benign environment 3 00:00:12,530 --> 00:00:16,750 where our potential adversaries didn't contest 4 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:17,870 what we were doing up there, 5 00:00:17,870 --> 00:00:19,690 but that's not the case today. 6 00:00:19,690 --> 00:00:20,840 That's why it's so important 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,560 that we're doing what we're doing out here in Air University 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,580 to develop our students to think differently 9 00:00:26,580 --> 00:00:28,820 about how we operate in space domain, 10 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:32,610 in every career field and in every service needs to shift 11 00:00:32,610 --> 00:00:35,080 to the mindset of, my mission may not be here 12 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,740 because the domain is just different 13 00:00:38,740 --> 00:00:40,753 than it was in years past. 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,870 How we do we continue to fight in benign domain? 15 00:00:45,870 --> 00:00:48,190 How do we get our students to understand 16 00:00:48,190 --> 00:00:50,700 that this is not just you're gonna go flip on the switch 17 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:51,680 and it's gonna be there? 18 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,530 You can expect that when we hit a point of conflict 19 00:00:56,530 --> 00:01:01,020 that, at a minimum, your capabilities that you rely on, 20 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:03,870 from a space domain, are gonna be degraded at best 21 00:01:03,870 --> 00:01:06,350 and you've got to figure out how to fight through that. 22 00:01:06,350 --> 00:01:09,670 And if you don't understand the challenges 23 00:01:09,670 --> 00:01:13,360 that you're gonna face with a degraded space environment, 24 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:14,530 you're not going to be able to figure out 25 00:01:14,530 --> 00:01:16,960 how to fight through that as a effectively. 26 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:18,960 And I think it's a great opportunity for us to look 27 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:23,510 for those civilian institutions that are deeply involved 28 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:26,466 in space education and the development of this 29 00:01:26,466 --> 00:01:28,850 being in their own right of the space domain. 30 00:01:28,850 --> 00:01:30,130 A lot of folks only think about 31 00:01:30,130 --> 00:01:33,250 how do we operate in from and through space 32 00:01:33,250 --> 00:01:36,330 as it relates to our national security 33 00:01:36,330 --> 00:01:38,700 from The Department of Defense perspective, right? 34 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:40,590 But, it's much bigger than that. 35 00:01:40,590 --> 00:01:41,690 It's really three fold. 36 00:01:41,690 --> 00:01:44,810 It's about industry and it's about the civil side 37 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:46,220 of the space community. 38 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:49,600 NASA, for the first time in a little over eight years, 39 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,000 launched the first U.S. astronauts on a U.S. rocket. 40 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,170 First time ever we used a commercially procured rocket 41 00:01:56,170 --> 00:01:58,840 to launch astronauts to the space station. 42 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,330 You know, but they don't do it alone. 43 00:02:00,330 --> 00:02:03,410 They partner with our military team 44 00:02:03,410 --> 00:02:04,736 out at Patrick Air Force Base. 45 00:02:04,736 --> 00:02:08,300 It takes an entire industry or the entire population 46 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:13,300 to make this work and we rely on those commercial companies 47 00:02:14,704 --> 00:02:17,320 to spur us along and make us better 48 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,270 and to increase our capability. 49 00:02:20,270 --> 00:02:21,650 That requires an industrial base 50 00:02:21,650 --> 00:02:23,730 that starts in the education community, right? 51 00:02:23,730 --> 00:02:24,860 So I think that's the tie. 52 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:28,360 Where can we plug in to build those partnerships 53 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,670 with education, where we can bring folks in 54 00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:36,590 and share ideas and share challenges 55 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:38,303 and solve those problems together? 56 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,220 Here at Air University we are key to the beginning 57 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:47,710 of the education of a space professional's career. 58 00:02:47,710 --> 00:02:51,630 They're going to learn about space first and foremost here. 59 00:02:51,630 --> 00:02:53,550 They're gonna come back here through Air University, 60 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:58,550 a key pice of their career, and learn how to be leaders, 61 00:02:59,010 --> 00:03:04,010 how to change organizations, how to challenge the norm 62 00:03:04,610 --> 00:03:08,660 and how to be better officers enlisted personnel 63 00:03:08,660 --> 00:03:10,463 and that starts with education.