The language in the new version of DoDD 3100.10 is notable for the specific reference to SPACECOM's responsibility for "offensive" as well as "defensive" operations worldwide — the word offensive is not included in the 2022 version.
Adm. Christopher Grady, vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Joint Requirements Oversight Council is "well on pace" to putting more "teeth" into its processes for driving the military services to fulfill joint requirements.
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The Defense Business Board study, however, recommends against folding the NRO and MDA into the Space Force.
The needs analysis comes as Congress has been keeping a watchful eye on what some lawmakers worry is a brewing turf battle between the Space Force and the spy satellite agencies.
"The services today are working more what I call 'service all domain command and control' — and don't blame me for the acronym, it sounds like SADC2," said Scott Stapp, CTO of Northrop Grumman Corp.
"I'm very confident that the JROC is having a significant impact, which is what I'm responsible to help with," Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady told reporters here today during the Pentagon's FY23 budget rollout.
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
As the Biden administration cuts it close with critical post, one analyst said Grady is a former fleet operator versed in "the challenges of dealing with day-to-day activities to counter adversaries and deter aggression."
"I would like to have overhead sensors that see everything, characterize everything that goes on on this planet from a missile perspective, all the time everywhere. ... That's unobtainium right now," says VCJCS Gen. John Hyten.
The Joint Warfighting Concept "is an excellent concept, but the concept is just that -- it's a concept. That concept is going to drive experimentation, it's going to drive future capabilities and future doctrine, but right now it's just the concept and we're still learning with it," VCJCS Gen. John Hyten says.
A next step will be a series of "strategic directives" from the Joint Requirements Oversight Council that roll out "over the next few months," Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, Joint Staff J6 Deputy Director says.
The JROC has tagged the Space Force "officially and formally as the integrator for all joint space requirements," says vice chief Gen. DT Thompson.
"One of the requirements is going to be that all data developed and produced by every weapon system we have has to be made accessible, period," Gen. John Hyten said today.
The JROC now will issue "strategic directives" to the services prescribing how they craft buying plans to substantiate the emerging Joint Warfighting Concept, Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, Joint Staff J6 deputy director, says.
Pending the Deputy Secretary’s approval, the Joint All Domain Command & Control strategy could receive Secretary Austin’s okay within “weeks,” said Brig. Gen. Rob Parker.