Conservative Think Tank Tries To Imagine Biden Space Policy
Senior space officials met to “war game” Biden administration space policy, Ars Technica
“On Tuesday about a dozen space officials met virtually to simulate how a National Space Council might operate during a Joe Biden administration, should the Democratic Party nominee win the 2020 presidential election. The American Foreign Policy Council convened what it characterized as a “closed-door” and “scenario-based simulation” to understand how the Biden administration would think through important space events. Invitations were sent to officials in the aerospace industry whom the Biden administration might call upon as advisers or to fill key leadership roles. The event was not organized at the behest of the Biden campaign.”
Keith’s note: The American Foreign Policy Council is a conservative non-profit with zero influence on Democratic activities. Zero. Newt Gingrich is on its advisory board. Tick tock. Eric Berger’s reporting is spot on. As he notes the Biden campaign had nothing to do with this event. As such, anything that emerged from their “war games” amounts to little more than a game of “you sank my battleship”. These sort of things always happen in Washington, DC during election times. If no concrete policy emerges on a specific topic, the usual suspects feel compelled to go off and look like they are creating one. That is what is going on here. Also, a few people are also jockeying for jobs (like chairing the National Space Council). When Team Biden has a space policy we’ll all hear about it in broad daylight – not cloistered shadows.
The first big question, given past history, is if there will be the political support for the National Space Council to continue in a Biden Administration. The second big question is if there is actually a need for one given the many years, (1973-1989 & 1993-2016) NASA seem to function well without it. It will be interesting to watch developments.
From looking at their website, AFPC is more interested in the expansion of Space Force than, say, planetary science programs, SETI, terrestrial climate observation, or manned lunar bases. I doubt that this conference accomplished much.
Yes they see Space Force as an excuse to pursue all sorts of play things with no strategic focus.
The American Foreign Policy Council is also selling Space Force as a major player in the green revolution
The Space Force’s relevance to the green agenda
https://www.afpc.org/public…
They see the Space Force as the solution to everything.
“Selling” is the correct term 🙂
I can’t imagine a Biden administration is following through on anything the Trump administration proposed or started. What do we all expect when the US Government has essentially been in a Bi-Polar mental state for 50 years? With this mentality NASA will never send people back to the Moon or Mars
Huh? Much of what NASA does is what it was already doing under Obama and before that under Bush and before that under Clinton and ….
There was a similar convocation reported by the Planetary Society in a recent podcast.