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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

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Analysis: DoD space budget ‘clear winner’ in 2022 proposal

Friday, June 11, 2021

Categories: ASCF News Missile Defense

Source: https://spacenews.com/analysis-dod-space-budget-clear-winner-in-2022-proposal/

Acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth tours United Launch Alliance’s Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., May 17, 2021. Credit: U.S. Space Force

WASHINGTON — In the Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal, the Pentagon is requesting $15.3 billion for investments in space technology, an increase of $1.8 billion over what Congress enacted in 2021, according to a new report by the consulting firm Avascent.

The bulk of the increase is for U.S. Space Force classified research and development programs, which would grow from $3.6 billion in 2021 to $4.5 billion in 2022.

“National security space was a clear winner amongst major investment accounts,” said the Avascent report published June 10.

DoD’s space budget is smaller than other categories in absolute terms but grows significantly in relative terms in the 2022 proposal, the report says. “FY22 national security space investment spending (procurement and RDT&E) grew by 13.8%, compared to about 1% for the rest of DoD.” RDT&E is short for research, development, testing and engineering.

The $15.3 billion in space technology investments proposed for 2022 includes:

$6.8 billion Space Force unclassified RDT&E
$4.5 billion for Space force classified RDT&E
$2.7 billion for Space Force unclassified procurement
$900 million for Space Development Agency unclassified RDTE and procurement
$400 million for Missile Defense Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency RDT&E
Avascent analyst Andrew Penn said the growth in funding for space is an “acknowledgment of the threats the United States faces.”

The message from this budget is that space “can’t be a political debate,and that we need capabilities both on orbit and the ground that we don’t have today,” Penn said.

Congress will review the budget request in the coming months and likely will make some tweaks “but I would be shocked if the top line for Space Force got any meaningful reduction,” Penn said. “If anything, a slight increase would be the more likely outcome.”

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