Being the head of a Research and Development Department requires looking into the future to anticipate what customers’ needs will be in the years to come. Choosing to pursue a technology customers will not ultimately invest in wastes the two most precious commodities they have: time and money. What they really need is a crystal ball.
Air Force Space Command is providing that crystal ball. A recently published Long-Term Science and Technology Challenges Memo gives both industry and academia a look at what AFSPC leadership sees as top science and technology priorities in the coming decades.
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