Space Force releases Vector 2025 Published Nov. 14, 2025 By Staff Sgt. Emmeline James Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The service released the Space Force Vector 2025, a comprehensive document designed to provide Guardians with a unified reference that connects key guidance, initiatives and concepts shaping the Space Force. The document is not a plan or strategy; rather, it provides what Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman refers to as a “vector”— an outline of the direction and momentum that the service must maintain as it matures. “As we grow to meet the demands of a rapidly changing domain, it occasionally becomes necessary to take stock of our journey: where we have been, where we are today and where we are going,” Saltzman wrote in the foreword. “So, rather than a plan or a strategy, I felt it was important to provide our Guardians with a ‘vector’ for what I consider to be the most essential elements of our work.” The document synchronizes the Space Force’s formative purpose and theory of success, an approach aimed to maintain space superiority and deter conflict through proactive and responsible operations. Additionally, it outlines service-level activities—Force Design, Force Development, Force Generation and Force Employment—which structure how the service builds, prepares, and employs space power. These principles aim to unify ongoing transformation efforts across the Space Force, clarify institutional roles and support its mission of providing combat-ready forces to the joint force. “If every Guardian can internalize the concepts contained herein, I am confident that we will accelerate our transformation into a warfighting service; a service that embodies warrior ethos, outpaces our adversaries and protects our Joint Force and our nation from space-enabled attack,” wrote Saltzman. The full Space Force Vector 2025 document is available here.