CSO Gen. Chance Saltzman said that the service is already looking at "criteria and processes" for future changes to integrate operations and sustainment, and better align with acquisition efforts.
The UK Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations Cell (JCO) in effect will extend the time the SPACECOM can keep tabs on satellites, especially those owned by adversaries, and dangerous space debris.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
The new office will coordinate the commercial cooperation activities of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense at Schriever SFB in Colorado and the Combined Force Space Component Command at Vandenberg SFB in California.
SPACECOM is "looking at" whether it would make sense to combine two of its operational centers, Gen. Jim Dickinson said.
"The alignment of task forces and operational centers under one commander will provide USSPACECOM a command-and-control structure that enables rapid action to deliver agile and responsive space effects in support of integrated deterrence," said SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson.
That pilot project will use SPACECOM's Unified Data Library (UDL) as a data base, DalBello said, because Commerce is still in the early stages of creating its own cloud-based data storage capability, called the Open Architecture Data Repository (OADR).
The Commerce Department doesn't simply want to replicate what DoD does now in providing space situational awareness data to industry, but go beyond to provide "a technologically superior product," said Richard DalBello, head of DoC's Commercial Space Office.
It remains to be seen if the creation of a new Joint Force Space Component Command will help or hurt the chain of command for military space.
"The government has not decided what we want our format to be" for SSA data provided by commercial firms, explained SPACECOM's Col. Scot Brodeur. "But when we do decide, in short order I need y'all to be all in on getting onto that format."
AFRL last Thursday held a classified stakeholder meeting to discuss R&D to underpin future military operations beyond the traditional near-Earth orbits used today.
"While our adversaries have rapidly advanced a great spectrum of threats ... that are intended to defeat US space capabilities, we're only beginning to get our act together," said Jeff Gossel, senior intelligence engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).
"We must have fully integrated offensive and defensive operations across all of our services, as well as our partners," says Army Gen. James Dickinson, SPACECOM commander.
WASHINGTON: For the first time, Space Command is working with the operator and builder of America’s spy satellites, the NRO, to develop a shared “playbook” of pre-agreed actions to defend military and spy satellites during a conflict, SPACECOM and NRO officials say. The ‘playbook’ is a central part of a new joint concept of operations (CONOP) […]
"[I]t is fair to say that IC and DoD efforts have not always been aligned optimally, whether in acquisitions or operations," said Maj. Gen. Michael Guetlein, NRO's deputy director.