Too often, a word or phrase becomes the “it” word in Washington, while the issue it speaks to may never actually be addressed. To the chagrin of the rest of us outside the beltway, addressing legitimate concerns too often takes a back seat to emphasis on aiding political elites in their climb up the greasy pole of power and promotion.

Much like campaign slogans, these buzzwords symbolize a movement, but when the moment has passed, any accumulated good intentions that could have been translated into action die. In recent years, though, one word emerged out of the space policy milieu – resilience – that has become a remarkable exception to an otherwise frustrating game of virtue signaling.

The seeds of our desire for space resilience in this century were planted many years before the birth of the Space Development Agency (SDA) five years ago…

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