The Space Force is “working with all the other services and combat commanders to determine what are their requirements for ISR that we can then work with our partners in the Intelligence Community to figure out how best to satisfy those requirements,” CSO Gen. Jay Raymond said.
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NRO Director Chris Scolese said that he and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall are going to “tighten” the relationship between NRO and the Space Force on ISR.
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Amid lawmaker concerns about turf tussles, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and NRO Director Chris Scoloese have an “informal agreement” to “work cooperatively to address DoD’s ISR needs from space.”
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“Our goal is to ultimately develop a comprehensive set of needs and gap analysis with traceable documentation of the joint warfighter requirements for space,” said Lt. Gen. Chance Saltzman, before investing in solutions.
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SWAC Director Andrew Cox joked that his office would be “building Pinocchios” if it can’t move its blueprints for change into real-boy programs with funding behind them.
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Acquiring the Wedgetail “gives us a path” while the service awaits a space-based capability, Air Force Chief of Staff CQ Brown said, as “an option to be able to get the capability much faster than if we were to start a new start from scratch.”
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“The space-based GMTI system will replace a portion of the JSTARS sensing capability” and “will support all combatant commands,” Space Force spokesperson Col. Catie Hague explains.
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