This year's game included five "notional technologies" designed to improve international cooperation, such as tools to improve common space domain awareness, according to Space Force officials.
Space Doctrine Publication 3.0, crafted by STARCOM, provides baseline definitions for offensive, defensive, and "mobility and logistics" ops.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
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.
The Space Force's newest operational unit, Delta 15 stood up in March and that supports Space Command's "protect and defend" mission, will be based at Schriever SFB in Colorado Springs.
Among the exercise scenarios, Red Skies will look at how Space Force operators will handle threatening close approaches by adversary satellites.
"I can't give you the specific numbers yet, but we are investing in developing what I'm loosely calling an operational test and training infrastructure," Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters at a roundtable today.
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"We are not where we need to be as a digital service by any means," Col. Roy Rockwell told the GovConWire DoD Digital Modernization Forum today, adding that a "Spaceverse" could be a couple years away.
"[If] I put a Guardian in a simulator, simulator, simulator and then put them on the ops floor live to fly GPS or communication satellite or any of the space capabilities, is that the best preparation?" Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton asked.
Black Skies will be followed later this year by the Red Skies exercise focused on "orbital warfare," STARCOM Commander Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton said. Next year, the Blue Skies exercise will focus on cyber warfare.
The 36-member Texas congressional delegation wants Kendall to reopen the bid process to allow all 50 states to compete, not just those with Space Force bases.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
"We absolutely believe we will save money," said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. DT Thompson. Other military departments are looking into a similar approach, another Space Force officer said.
Space Force can't simply "carve out a piece of real estate" on orbit for live testing and training, explains STARCOM head Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton.
"Comms, data relay, remote sensing, and even ISR and some other things -- [these] capabilities are increasingly available in the commercial market," Space Force deputy Lt. Gen. DT Thompson said today.
"We've decided that the topic is important enough and unique enough that we need a group of people who understand it down to its most fundamental levels."