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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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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).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

South Korea’s air force opens space ops center

Friday, October 8, 2021

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats

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Source: https://spacenews.com/south-korean-air-force-opens-space-center/

South Korean Air Force chief of staff Gen. Park In-ho, second from right in the front row, and other senior air force officers stand in front of the Space Center that opened Sept 30 at Air Force headquarters in Gyeryong, South Chungcheong Province. Credit: South Korean Air Force

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s air force has launched a space operations center that will play a central role in drawing space policies for the nation’s armed forces as well as enhancing cooperation with domestic and international partners, including U.S. Space Force. This is the latest in a series of efforts by South Korea to enhance its space defense capabilities.

The space center’s opening ceremony took place Sept. 30 at Air Force headquarters in Gyeryong, South Chungcheong Province, with Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Park In-ho, the center’s inaugural chief, Col. Park Gi-tae, and other top brass attending, the air force said in a statement.

The center — under Gen. Park’s direct control — consists of three departments, each responsible for space policy development, space capability development and space situational awareness. It will also be in charge of exchanges with other space units under the defense ministry and South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff, as well as with its foreign counterparts and non-military research institutions for effective communication and policy setting, the air force said.

“The space center will invest all available resources to develop capabilities for the country’s space security and establish a foothold for the Air Force to make a leap to become the Space and Air Force,” Gen. Park said in the statement. “Space will be a key warfighting domain, and we will have our weapons ready up there. We will help deal with threats to space security as well.”

Col. Park said the center will make “all-out efforts to support key space programs initiated by the Ministry of National Defense and the joint chiefs of staff as well as help the Air Force bolster its space capabilities so as to enhance the nation’s defense capabilities in outer space.”

The center’s opening took place one month after the South Korean air force decided to join U.S. Space Force-led joint military drills aimed at bolstering the latter’s defense capabilities in outer space. The decision was made during an Aug. 27 meeting between Gen. Park and U.S. Space Force Gen. John W. Raymond, chief of space operations, at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The two leaders also agreed to set up a joint consultative body on space policy, share information on space surveillance and improve joint space operations capabilities such as missile defense.

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