{"id":101785,"date":"2020-02-02T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/pentagon-report-dod-needs-to-test-how-satellites-would-perform-under-attack"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:46:11","slug":"pentagon-report-dod-needs-to-test-how-satellites-would-perform-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/pentagon-report-dod-needs-to-test-how-satellites-would-perform-under-attack","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon report: DoD needs to test how satellites would perform under attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-report-dod-needs-to-test-how-satellites-would-perform-under-attack2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Department\u2019s director of operational test and evaluation warns in a new report that the military today is not able to assess the durability of its satellites if they came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>DoD plans to invest at least $100 billion in space systems over the next decade, \u201cand we are not alone,\u201d writes DOT&amp;E director Robert Behler in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dote.osd.mil\/Publications\/Annual-Reports\/2019-Annual-Report\/\">just released annual report<\/a> for fiscal year 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore must thoroughly understand how our systems will perform in space, particularly when facing man-made threats,\u201d says the report. \u201cYet, the DoD currently has no real means to assess adequately the operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability of space-based systems in a representative environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Department\u2019s director of operational test and evaluation warns in a new report that the military today is not able to assess the durability of its satellites if they came under attack. DoD plans to invest at least $100 billion in space systems over the next decade, \u201cand we are not alone,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}