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2020-10-31 智邦网
据Defensenews网10月30日报道
美国防部新设负责太空政策助理部长 （ASD(SP)）职位，确定贾斯汀·约翰逊就任该职，作为五角大楼应对太空战的最高官员。
约翰逊作为总统过渡团队成员，于2016年8月就任国防部负责太空政策助理部长帮办一职。
ASD(SP)接受负责政策副防长领导，并负责国防部业务部门与国际伙伴之间的太空政策与战略协调。
美国会还要求设立负责太空采办与综合集成的空军助理部长职位，作为空军第二采办执行官，负责监督空军所有太空系统采办部门业务。
太空与导弹系统中心、太空快速能力办公室和太空发展局将接受该执行官统一监管。
Pentagon establishes new space policy position
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department has named Justin Johnson as the individual performing the duties of the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, a new position in a new office required under the National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress in December 2019.
A former Heritage Foundation defense analyst, Johnson served as the deputy assistant defense secretary for space policy since the departure of Stephen Kitay in August. Johnson first arrived at the Pentagon as part of the president’s transition team in 2016, and has since served in a number of positions, including as senior staff member under Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
The assistant secretary of defense for space policy, or ASD(SP), will be the senior official in charge of the Pentagon’s space war-fighting policy, serving beneath the undersecretary of defense for policy. As part of that role, the ASD(SP) will also be responsible for coordinating space policy and strategy between agencies and international partners.
The ASD(SP) is one of two new civilian positions required under the legislation that created the U.S. Space Force. In addition to the recently established position, Congress called for an assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, effectively a second acquisitions executive within the Department of the Air Force overseeing the various organizations that purchase space systems starting in 2022. The Space and Missile Systems Center, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, and the Space Development Agency would fall under that executive’s purview.
The deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, Shawn Barnes, is performing the duties of the assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration until an individual is confirmed by the Senate.
The establishment of the ASD(SP) position brings additional civilian oversight to the nation’s military space enterprise as it undergoes a massive transformation, according to Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist.
“The Department of Defense continues the most significant transformation in the history of the U.S. national security space program,” Norquist said in a statement.. “The establishment of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy is a change of the civilian oversight of the space enterprise that aligns with the establishment of the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command.”
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