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The Long War: Sustaining Combat Effectiveness Over Time
This panel examines the endurance of the space enterprise under sustained wartime demand.
Military logistics leaders, acquisition and sustainment organizations, and industry will explore how operational tempo translates into consumption and replenishment requirements across the space enterprise. The discussion will consider spacecraft and payload availability, launch capacity, critical components and materials, servicing and refueling, ground infrastructure, supply chains, workforce, commercial capacity, and other resources necessary to sustain combat operations over time.
Panelists will examine whether today’s industrial and logistics systems possess the capacity, resilience, inventories, authorities, and surge capability required for prolonged operations. The discussion will also address where capacity must exist before conflict begins, what can realistically be expanded after demand increases, and how government and industry should share the risk of building capacity that may not be fully utilized during peacetime.
The objective is to move beyond the ability to respond to an individual contingency and ask a harder question: can the United States replenish what space warfare consumes quickly enough to sustain combat effectiveness longer than the adversary?
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