Air Force Boosts Space With Elevation Of JFCC Space to 4 Star; STRATCOM Says…

Air Force Boosts Space With Elevation Of JFCC Space to 4 Star; STRATCOM Says…
Air Force Boosts Space With Elevation Of JFCC Space to 4 Star; STRATCOM Says…

UPDATED: Adds AFSPC Head Raymond’s HASC Statement Confirming JFCC Elevation CAPITOL HILL: Buried in the minutiae of the Senate Armed Service’s Committee’s space hearing is an important shift for space warfighting and acquisition. Here it is: “… AFSPC/CC has been elevated to the Joint Force Component Commander for Space (JFCC Space) … in essence a 4-star…

Exclusive: War In Space ‘Not A Fight Anybody Wins’ — Gen. Raymond

Exclusive: War In Space ‘Not A Fight Anybody Wins’ — Gen. Raymond
Exclusive: War In Space ‘Not A Fight Anybody Wins’ — Gen. Raymond

SPACE SYMPOSIUM: If war breaks out between the United States and a competitor like China, it will almost certainly be fought in space, just as it would be fought on land, at sea and in the air, the head of Air Force Space Command said in an interview. “Space is a warfighting domain just like…

Rep. Rogers Proposes ‘Space Force’; JICSPOC Morphs To ‘National Space Defense Center’

Rep. Rogers Proposes ‘Space Force’; JICSPOC Morphs To ‘National Space Defense Center’
Rep. Rogers Proposes ‘Space Force’; JICSPOC Morphs To ‘National Space Defense Center’

UPDATED: Adds Rep. Rogers’ Speech Calling For New Space Service; Rep. Lamborn Saying No SPACE SYMPOSIUM: What’s in a name? When Gen. John Hyten, head of Strategic Command, announced the new name for the JICSPOC today, it marked a fundamental transformation of the US national security establishment to a much closer integration of the Intelligence…

Best Of 2016: The Next War

Best Of 2016: The Next War
Best Of 2016: The Next War

What will the next war look like? Robots, lasers, hypersonic missiles, and stealth aircraft figure prominently, but what matters most isn’t the technology: It’s the concepts of operation that bring them all together — just as the German blitzkrieg combined tanks, aircraft, and the radio, or the Japanese at Pearl Harbor combined aircraft and ships.…

What The Future Of GPS, Bombers, Fighters Should Be

What The Future Of GPS, Bombers, Fighters Should Be
What The Future Of GPS, Bombers, Fighters Should Be

  The core task of the men and women who buy America’s weapons is to envision the adversaries and environments of tomorrow and buy forces that are up to the challenge. This involves generating a similar set of assumptions to those used by operational strategists. Today, three assumptions underpin U.S. acquisition strategy that will leave tomorrow’s forces…

JICSPOC Funding Triples In Reprogramming Request

JICSPOC Funding Triples In Reprogramming Request
JICSPOC Funding Triples In Reprogramming Request

WASHINGTON: Funding for a new space command center will nearly triple if Congress approves the Pentagon’s mid-year reprogramming request. Propelled by personal interest from both Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his deputy, Bob Work, the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC) began this year with just $16 million in 2016 funding. The reprogramming request…

STRATCOM Takes Lead On JICSPOC; SecAF James

STRATCOM Takes Lead On JICSPOC; SecAF James
STRATCOM Takes Lead On JICSPOC; SecAF James

PENTAGON:  Less than two months after Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the highly classified Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC), the head of Strategic Command’s space command unit has taken over the war games at Schriever Air Force Base. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told me in an interview that Lt. Gen.David Buck, JFCC-Space, was…

Space Command Readies For War With ‘Space Enterprise Vision’

Space Command Readies For War With ‘Space Enterprise Vision’
Space Command Readies For War With ‘Space Enterprise Vision’

WASHINGTON: Air Force Space Command has created a blueprint for fighting and winning wars in space, known by the innocuous title of the Space Enterprise Vision. The existence of the plan is not classified but many of its working elements are. The SEV is “an all-encompassing look at all the things we need to do to create…

SecDef: JICSPOC Means ‘One Room, One Floor’ For Intel & Military

SecDef: JICSPOC Means ‘One Room, One Floor’ For Intel & Military
SecDef: JICSPOC Means ‘One Room, One Floor’ For Intel & Military

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE: Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who spent five years pushing the National Reconnaissance Office and the military to work more closely together, saw the effects today during a tour of the JICSPOC, the experimental effort to improve battle management of America’s satellites. Inside the heavily guarded secure facility where most of America’s satellites are flown and…

US Challengers Can Spoof, Dazzle, Cyber Attack US Satellites: DepSecDef

US Challengers Can Spoof, Dazzle, Cyber Attack US Satellites: DepSecDef
US Challengers Can Spoof, Dazzle, Cyber Attack US Satellites: DepSecDef

COLORADO SPRINGS: The work being done at the high-profile Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC) includes live experiments with satellites, in addition to the wargaming that all assumed has been taking place, Deputy Defense Bob Work  says. “There are satellites up there, as you know, that don’t have a lot of useful life left,” Work replied when I asked what he…

Faster Decisions, Better Integrated Data, Data Fusion: JICSPOC Lessons Learned

Faster Decisions, Better Integrated Data, Data Fusion: JICSPOC Lessons Learned
Faster Decisions, Better Integrated Data, Data Fusion: JICSPOC Lessons Learned

CAPITOL HILL: The experiments underway by the Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office and the rest of the space-centric Intelligence Community under the auspices of the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC) are clearly demonstrating how much space warriors need to change the way they do business. That was the unspoken but logical conclusion of…

DepSecDef On Boosted Humans & Robot Weapons

WASHINGTON: The senior leadership of the US military knows that genetically modified humans — stronger, faster, or better at altitude — and intelligent machines that could kill without remorse and with enormous efficiency, are two of the thorniest policy nettles they must grasp. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work firmly grasped that nettle today, saying the United…

Intel Community Key To JICSPOC; 3rd Test Next Week: Gen. Hyten

Intel Community Key To JICSPOC; 3rd Test Next Week: Gen. Hyten
Intel Community Key To JICSPOC; 3rd Test Next Week: Gen. Hyten

AFA WINTER: The third experiment in how the Intelligence Community and the Pentagon should fight together in space gets underway next week, says Gen. John Hyten, head of Space Command, A fourth will be held in May. After the first two tests — all details of which are classified — one lesson has become absolutely clear, Hyten made…

People, Not Tech: DepSecDef Work On 3rd Offset, JICSPOC

People, Not Tech: DepSecDef Work On 3rd Offset, JICSPOC
People, Not Tech: DepSecDef Work On 3rd Offset, JICSPOC

PENTAGON: The Pentagon says it wants a revolution and the 2017 budget to be unveiled today funds a host of high-tech weapons, from arsenal planes to Hyper Velocity Projectiles to robots. But for Deputy Defense Secretary  Bob Work, the real bleeding edge of innovation is not a weapon, no matter how impressive. It’s a secretive command…