Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is assessing costs of near-lunar and orbital military systems to shape budgets for the next two decades.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon is calculating the costs of near-lunar and orbital military capabilities to inform future defense budgets, looking up to two decades ahead.
"We look five, 10, 15, 20 years into the future to find out what you will need," Hegseth said, describing the planning horizon. "What cislunar systems, space systems, underground, underwater." The secretary framed the effort as essential to understanding how warfare will evolve across multiple domains.
The initiative aims to align today's budget decisions with tomorrow's combat requirements, ensuring the US military can operate in emerging contested environments. Officials are assessing what capabilities will be required not only in Earth orbit but also in cislunar space — the region between Earth and the Moon — as well as in subterranean and undersea domains.
The assessment reflects growing Pentagon focus on cislunar space as a potential theater of operations, amid increasing strategic competition in space. No specific funding figures, program names, or timelines for deployment were disclosed in Hegseth's remarks.
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