Kari A. Bingen
Chairman Self, Ranking Member Keating, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to discuss “Orbits of Influence: Emerging Threats to U.S. Space Security and Foreign Policy Implications.”1 I was privileged to work with this Committee while a staffer on the Armed Services Committee and saw firsthand the impact of your work.
As successive administrations have stated, our ability to access and use the space domain is a vital national interest.2 We have long benefited—technologically, economically, societally, militarily, and diplomatically—from our dominance in space. But that advantage is eroding. The United States must take steps now—with urgency and purpose—to maintain that leadership before we are outmatched in space.
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