Speaking at a technology summit hosted by Defense One, Bhavya Lal, with the Institute for Defense Analysis at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, said focusing on the problems of the future will help the U.S. maintain its technological lead in space.
"One of the things we need to worry about is what are going to be the emerging technologies a decade from now so we can stay ahead of the Russia's and China's?" she said. "One potential technology that both the government and the private sector are starting to look at is on-orbit manufacturing, assembly, and servicing. I think it's an area we need to think about more, we need to bring the private sector in more, the government needs to think differently about how you construct and use an on-orbit platform in the case of war."
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