JWID 2000 will demonstrate support to warfighters that integrates space forces and space-derived information with air, land and sea forces. The demonstrations will help identify emerging technologies that hold the most promise in addressing communications and information interoperability issues facing the U.S. military and the nation's allies. It's clear this reliance on space will continue to grow. Traditionally, we've talked about space as a combat multiplier in a combat support role, and that thinking was on target as we attempted to get all the warfighters to think and integrate space. However, now space has become much more basic and intrinsic than just a force multiplier.
Space is a prerequisite.
Space has proven itself vital to our national interests.