Indiana University is leading a push to address this emerging challenge by building on decades of experience in cybersecurity research and more recent accumulation of space research to help shape new U.S. grand strategy aimed at accumulating and deploying space-cyber power to achieve these goals. On March 7,  senior policy experts, defense establishment personnel, diplomats, political leaders will join IU researchers in Washington D.C. for a day-long workshop that will launch a 3-year research project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research aimed at laying the foundations for a theory of space-cyber power.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is participating in  a U.S. government effort to design a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot currently be detected from the ground, can damage satellites and other spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.