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Space Industry 2NC --- Key to EconomyCommercial space is key to the economyGydesen 6 – Paul W. Gydesen, Lieutenant Colonel of USAF, February 2006, “What Is The Impact To National Security Without Commercial Space Applications?” http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/gydesen.pdf The United States is growing more and more economically dependent upon commercial space assets. Commercial space applications are vitally important to the prosperity, economic well-being, and overall confidence of the business climate. Space applications enhance such things as: television broadcast, telecommunications, navigation, and computer network timing. Revenue from space commerce was $97 billion in 2003 and is projected to top $137 billion by 2009. The availability of space systems, especially Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation and timing data, continues to find new uses within industry. This includes: power generation, mapping services, agriculture, and public utilities. Without the use of satellite systems by commercial companies, the impact to the United States economy could be severe in the short term. Over the long term, the national security of the United States can be maintained. A sudden loss of satellite services could cause economic chaos. The greatest risk to the economy is in overall consumer confidence. When American consumers cannot receive cable TV, satellite TV, cash from ATMs, they may lose confidence and stop spending money; pushing the economy into a recession. The extent of the chaos is dependent upon how quickly critical services such as financial transactions, network timing, and stock market services can be switched to fiber-optic networks. Currently, the fiber-optic network has many terabits of excess capacity. Strong leadership from government officials and a quick conversion to fiber-optic is critical. Commercial space is key to the economyKrepon 4 – Michael Krepon, president and CEO of the Henry L. Stimson Center, November 2004, “Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option,” Arms Control Association, http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_11/Krepon#Lewis2 Space warfare would have far-reaching adverse effects for global commerce, especially commercial transactions and telecommunication services that use satellites. Worldwide space industry revenues now total almost $110 billion a year, $40 billion of which go to U.S. companies.[4] These numbers do not begin to illuminate how much disruption would occur in the event of space warfare. For a glimpse of what could transpire, the failure of a Galaxy IV satellite in May 1998 is instructive. Eighty-nine percent of all U.S. pagers used by 45 million customers became inoperative, and direct broadcast transmissions, financial transactions, and gas station pumps were also affected.[5] Loss of commercial assets kills global economyGydesen 6 – Paul W. Gydesen, Lieutenant Colonel of USAF, February 2006, “What Is The Impact To National Security Without Commercial Space Applications?” http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/gydesen.pdf A loss of commercial space assets could also impact world globalization. The United States is providing world leadership in globalization. Without our space assets, this endeavor would face a serious setback, thus compromising many economic initiatives around the globe. The result could be an economic recession on a global level. The space industry is key to the US economy and militaryHitchens 2 – Theresa Hitchens is Director of the Center for Defense Information, and leads its Space Security Project, in cooperation with the SecureWorld Foundation. Editor of Defense News from 1998 to 2000, Hitchens has had a long career in journalism, with a focus on military, defense industry and NATO affairs. She also was director of research at the British American Security Information Council. Hitchens serves on the editorial board of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and is a member of Women in International Security and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. April 18th, 2002, "Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian Roulette? The Policy Implications of U.S. Pursuit of Space-Based Weapons," www.cdi.org/missile-defense/spaceweapons.cfm The health of the U.S. commercial space and telecommunications industry is critically important to the computerized, globalized U.S. economy, but also directly to the U.S. military. The Department of Defense now uses commercial satellite systems to cover about 60 percent of its satellite communications needs, and that dependence is growing.50 Military use of commercial assets is unlikely to significantly decline, in part due to the high costs of building and operating military-dedicated satellites. Of course, it must be pointed out that some U.S. firms will no doubt benefit from any new U.S. programs to develop space-based weaponry — particularly the large defense contractors already involved in military space programs. Nonetheless, there remains reason to be concerned about the affect on other companies more involved in the commercial use of space. And since there are, and will remain, direct benefits to the military of maintaining a strong and competitive commercial space and telecommunications industry, the possibility that the deployment of weapons in space or a policy of aggressive targeting of satellites (and subsequent government regulatory restraints) may have negative industrial implications must be more fully explored. SMIL Bad --- TerrorismSpace mill would cause use of terrorism chem and bio wepons and could undercut the US power internationallyTheresa Hitchens 2002(CDI Vice President, Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian Roulette? The Policy Implications of U.S. Pursuit of Space-Based Weapons) [Many experts also argue there would be costs, both economic and strategic, stemming from the need to counter other asymmetric challenges from those who could not afford to be participants in the race itself. Threatened nations or non-state actors might well look to terrorism using chemical or biological agents as one alternative. Karl Mueller, now at RAND, in an analysis for the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base, wrote, "The United States would not be able to maintain unchallenged hegemony in the weaponization of space, and while a space-weapons race would threaten international stability, it would be even more dangerous to U.S. security and relative power projection capability, due to other states' significant ability and probably inclination to balance symmetrically and asymmetrically against ascendant U.S. power."31 ] Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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