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Space Force to restructure all missions into ‘integrated’ units to boost readiness: Lt. Gen. Garrant
“In the next few months, you can look for missile warning and space domain awareness as two mission areas [to be restructured], and then in the future satellite communications, for example, and then orbital warfare,” Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of Space Systems Command, told the Mitchell Institute today.
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New SpoC head Lt. Gen. David Miller said decisions about new Integrated Mission Deltas are expected “in the coming weeks.”
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“This is not only new; it’s astounding. It’s shocking. It’s a huge change (if adopted),” one industry contractor told Breaking Defense of the proposal.
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The combat squadron arrangement aligns the Space Force with how the Air Force, Army and Navy present and deploy forces to combatant commands, such as Indo-Pacific and European Command, said Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess, head of Space Forces-Space.
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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.
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The Red Skies exercise will focus on “mission planning and execution using orbital warfare modeling and simulation techniques” rather than actual live training — for now.
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The nominations package also proposes to elevate Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, head of the Space Force’s main acquisition arm Space Systems Command (SSC), to four star status and take over from Gen. D.T. Thompson as vice chief of space operations.
By Theresa Hitchens![Space Force ground control operators press for ‘absolutely critical’ network upgrades](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/05/22nd-Space-Ops-Squadron-scaled-e1684352496104-225x150.jpeg)
From antennas that can only “talk” to one satellite at a time to much of the work in the control center being done by paper, operators told reporters on a rare tour of the ops center that they’re in dire need of modernization.
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Among the exercise scenarios, Red Skies will look at how Space Force operators will handle threatening close approaches by adversary satellites.
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Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting talks “contested” space, his worries about space cybersecurity and what happens if adversaries target commercial US firms in orbit.
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SpRCO head Kelly Hammett told Breaking Defense in an interview that the “operational integration” process involves “tens of force generation elements with POAMS [plans of action and milestones] that take years to close everything out.”
By Theresa Hitchens