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SPACE OPERATIONS EDUCATION RESEARCH:

STUDYING UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCES AS PREDICTORS OF EARLY CAREER PERFORMANCE FOR MILITARY SPACE OPERATIONS OFFICERS

By Keith W. Balts, Colonel (Retired), USAF, Ph.D

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Undergraduate students who go on to operate space systems, e.g., satellites, launch systems, and ground-based systems, come from a diverse set of demographics and undergraduate experiences. The United States Space Force (USSF), and United States Air Force (USAF) before them, like many professions, have a demonstrated interest in who enters their ranks, but have had limited research available to them to inform their recruiting, selection, training, and early career development policies and processes

P1: Polaris Position

An assurance assertion

By Jacob Simmons, Chief Master Sergeant Guardian, United States Space Force

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General Stephen Whiting’s reminder at the 39th Space Symposium regarding “Winning in Competition and Conflict” still reverberates like a pre-race briefing echoing off pit walls: “Space is a team sport.” The assertion is simple, but the scene is not serene or serendipitous. Space warfare will not be the straightforward, drag-strip sprint of the first Space Race. The course is changing. It will be a slewing, dragged-out slalom. Conviction to convey and converge at the confluence of contemporary conflict and combat is common to the cannonball competition and commotion of a Constructors’ Championship … won collectively, lost consequently.

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