After what Gen. Glen VanHerck called a "totally deceiving and incorrect" SPACECOM statement, there was widespread confusion about who is charged with the missile defense mission.
By bringing the three mission areas of missile warning, missile defense and space domain awareness under one command as the Global Sensor Manager, USSPACECOM can more effectively integrate and fuse the sensor data for rapid detection, characterization, tracking and dissemination to ensure theaters can defeat any threat,” said Gen. Jim Dickinson, SPACECOM commander.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
"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.
SPACECOM now has "joint integrated space teams" at the other 10 combat commands to support the Joint Force, Gen. Jim Dickinson, the command's head, said.
Congressional Research Service report could shape lawmaker questions on hypersonics at next hearing, from funding to command and control issues.
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.
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
"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.
"We're looking internally to my headquarters, as well as here at Peterson, to bring some of our great allies and partners into our staff and into our operations and processes here at the Combatant Command level as well," said SPACECOM head Gen. James Dickinson.
"If we get this right, we will be the envy of the other services, because we're not tied to business of the past," says Space Force CSO Gen. Jay Raymond.
"They're cleaning up a bit of 'the who's in charge' of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day," one Pentagon expert said of the UCP's changes to SPACECOM's roles.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
"This is foundational to who we are," Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.
SMC's new SSA Marketplace will be open for business in fourth quarter 2020 or first quarter 2021.
If the US receives intelligence that Russia is prepping a strike against a US satellite, does SPACECOM task a drone or a B-21 bomber to take it out before it launches? Or does Gen. Raymond choose to simply maneuver the targeted satellite out of the way?