As great power competition extends into space, what will be the impact on nations’ behaviors and interests both on and around the Moon? Host Kellsie Herrmann sits down with space policy expert Kaitlyn Johnson, who walks through the political and scientific realities of the cislunar security environment.
Kaitlyn Johnson is a space policy subject matter expert. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the U.S. Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations (CSO) Strategic Initiatives Group. In this role, Mrs. Johnson works across the Space Force headquarters and field staff to provide advice, organization, and strategic messaging recommendations to the current CSO, General B. Chance Saltzman. Mrs. Johnson has expertise from her many years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Aerospace Security Project. At CSIS she led multi-year interdisciplinary projects on subjects such as adversarial counterspace weapons developments, defenses against counterspace weapons, international space norms and behaviors, cislunar space environment and policy, NATO’s space policy and vision, and the history and establishment of the U.S. Space Force. She received her master’s degree from American University and her bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.