Saltzman made “responsible counterspace campaigning” part of his “Theory of Competitive Endurance” and said in September that his fiscal 2026 budget request will put dollars behind that theory.

“The priorities that we have submitted—still early in the deliberation process—are counterspace capabilities and the space domain awareness that underpins it,” Saltzman said. “We have to understand what’s going on in the domain to effectively employ counterspace capability.”