MILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
“If there is an aircraft capable of launching an air-launched anti satellite weapon operating in the air domain, we need to know about it,” SPACECOM deputy Lt. Gen. John Shaw says.
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“We’re looking internally to my headquarters, as well as here at Peterson, to bring some of our great allies and partners into our staff and into our operations and processes here at the Combatant Command level as well,” said SPACECOM head Gen. James Dickinson.
By Theresa HitchensAt the moment, industry sources say, there is no money to be had for developing systems for DoD’s cislunar operations.
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Until they are officially transferred — which may not be for some time — the 16,000 airmen re-assigned today to the Space Force could be transferred again back to the Air Force at any time.
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While industry remains hopeful, GAO says DoD lacks a plan for integrating commercial satellite communications capabilities.
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And there are rumbles about a bureaucratic food fight between planning cells at Air Force headquarters here and at AFSPC in Colorado Springs.
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Bottom line: the Space Force will in essence be a renamed Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) unless and until Congress moves to allow personnel from the other services to be re-assigned. Indeed, the bill limits spending on the Space Force in 2020 to the $72.4 million requested by the Pentagon for the standup.
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“The goal is to eventually integrate all of AFSPC data” into the UDL, says AFSPC, “along with other sources such as commercial space (already there but more coming), multi-domain data from such as air, land, sea, data from other agencies, and even academia.”
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The National Security Council, Air Force Space Command, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA among others will share analysis about, warnings of, and potential responses to cybersecurity threats to satellites and ground stations with industry under a new public-private partnership.
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SMC’s new SSA Marketplace will be open for business in fourth quarter 2020 or first quarter 2021.
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LeoLabs CEO and co-founder Dan Ceperley says the firm has a mission “to drive a new era of transparency in LEO.”
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The vision itself isn’t the only thing that is needed, industry sources say. A concept of operations is required for how the Air Force will manage different user needs and interact with different industry providers. “The vision is out, but there is no concept of operations,” said one source.
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“A lot of the challenges we face in space are big data problems,” says Gen. John Raymond, who is dual-hatted as commander of Space Command and Air Force Space Command.
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The Air Force has valiantly breathed life into the decades-old E-3 Sentry platform, but as top service officials recently suggested, it can no longer wait for the jump to space-based systems, the authors write in this op-ed. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Bradley Bowman, Maj. Lauren Harrison and Ryan Brobst argue that as Russia…
By Bradley Bowman, Lauren Harrison and Ryan Brobst