Space Symposium in a Snowy Week

I'm not posting much this week, as I am covering the National Space Symposium at the Broadmoor, when I can make it through the weird weather. Major speeches from the heads of Space Command, National Reconnaissance Office, Strategic Command, Cyber Command. This is the realm of war, national security, and civilian space that everyone should be paying attention to, and very few do. I'll have some business stories from the conference through Reed et. al., and you can see some clips at YouTube - follow "National Space Symposium."

Cyber Command in Colorado Springs, Nuclear Control is....where?...Omaha?

Well, Tom Roeder from the Colorado Springs Gazette gave us the first report on why the Air Force Academy was on lockdown over the weekend, and what happens as a result of the Air Force officials getting spanked for not controlling their nuclear weapons. Cyber Command, the computer defense and attack unit temporarily housed in Louisiana, comes to Colorado Springs under the auspices of the Air Force Space Command - but will no longer be called Cyber Command, apparently. Meanwhile, nuclear weapons control leaves the Space Command's domain and now moves under.... well... it's not exactly clear. Roeder's article makes it sound like a new constituent command is formed under the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha, but details are pretty sparse. In any event, the shit all comes home to roost at StratCom, where the bigwigs control nuclear weapons, conventional weapons, global strike, intelligence, and every other icky thing you can think of. But if your computer is hacked, blame the kids in Colorado Springs. And is this inside baseball? Maybe, except that it involves the future of the planet, indicating you just might want to pay attention.