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Defense, military, intelligence agencies, all have a hand in U.S. space acquisitions The Aerospace Industries Association released a new infographic highlighting 15 main organizations developing and procuring technologies for national security space

#GeneralStephenWhiting #Commander, #USSpaceCommand's #FY25PrioritiesandPostureStatement of last week to #USSenate #SASC is available below -- with a few callouts to #training and #simulation. MS&T Magazine, editor

Reading this article I can see other evidence of how the competition is intensifying to secure military dominance in space...

ISR is a critical component to warfighting in every domain. A holistic understanding of the threat is paramount. Knowing the physical properties of the space system is a good baseline; however, the more important component is understanding the cognitive dimension of the complete system (think decision makers managing the satellite constellation). The human component goes beyond “how” the space system operates. Adding the cognitive (inherently human) dimension into the equation gets to “why” the space system operates and “how” it is integrated into a larger kill chain. Answering both “how” and “why” gets to adversary intent, and that is what ISR units (like the 75th ISR Squadron) help derive. I assess this is the reason the space community pivoted from “space situational awareness” to “space domain awareness.” Knowing where satellites are in space is no longer good enough… “She explained that the 75th ISR Squadron is looking at not just how to take out enemy satellites on orbit, but also the other dimensions of space systems, including ground facilities and the command and control data links in between.” Great article Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt and Theresa Hitchens Breaking Defense United States Space Force Space Operations Command Space Systems Command DC Chapter of Space Force Association Space Force Association Air & Space Forces Association Center for Space Policy & Strategy U.S. Space Command US Army U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space (APNT/Space) Cross-Functional Team (CFT) The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Did you miss the Space Warfighter Talk with Dr. John F. Plumb, The First Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy? Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/gufagX54 #spacenews #space #spaceforce #spaceforceassociation

Space Force Col. Raj Agrawal commands a 500-person military unit with teams located around the world that track every man-made object in orbit, watching for potential threats. As China and Russia build arsenals of weapons that could target American military and civilian satellites, those threats are growing, and Agrawal’s unit is part of a relatively new military branch that is quietly preparing for a new era of warfare. With 15,000 military and civilian personnel, and an annual budget of about $30 billion, Space Force is far smaller and less well known than any other branch of the military services. Space Force leaders are beginning to talk about its preparations for a potential war involving space. American combat in space wouldn’t necessarily involve satellite-killing explosions. The U.S. would likely use less brute-force tactics, such as blinding a spacecraft’s sensors, scrambling its electronics, or interfering with its communications with ground stations, officials in Colorado and Washington said. U.S. military officials’ new willingness to openly discuss conflict in outer space reflects what they say are startling advances by China and Russia. Beijing is developing fleets of surveillance satellites and multiple types of satellite-killers aimed at eroding U.S. space superiority, they said, while Moscow has tested components for a nuclear-armed antisatellite device. The Pentagon relies on space systems for almost everything it does: collecting and disseminating intelligence to assist with troop and ship movements, communicating, and finding adversary battle formations and targeting them. Being blinded in space, if only partially or momentarily, could have catastrophic consequences for U.S. military and intelligence operations. U.S. adversaries, especially China, have seized on these vulnerabilities. According to Space Force officials, China now has nearly 500 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites operating in space, which can detect aircraft carriers, air wings and ground forces. Nearly half of China’s intelligence satellites were deployed just last year. See https://lnkd.in/ghwHFBTQ AUKUS Guardians, Michael Sharpe #AUKUS

The Pentagon has emphasized space as the U.S. military's most critical domain, highlighting the need for space-based defense capabilities to deter potential aggression, particularly from China and Russia. This strategic shift includes moving from high-value satellites to networks of smaller, cost-effective ones, ensuring resilience against attacks on satellite infrastructure

Space Force General Explains How U.S. Satellites Detect Missile Launches Military space capabilities are critical for U.S. troops in the Middle East and around the world, and that includes a constellation of satellites that can detect missile launches using infrared sensors. The U.S. has credited the system, known as SBIRS, for saving American lives at bases in the Middle East in the past, and experts say it’s likely proving to be a critical technology today, as Iran-backed forces launch a barrage of attacks against American service members in the region. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday sat down with Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, U.S. Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations, to learn more about how the satellite technology works, and the importance of improving it as hostile nations race to counter U.S. space capabilities.

A huge milestone for SDA and a game changer for the Warfighter. SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Transport Layer will provide multi-band global communications access and persistent encrypted connectivity for warfighter missions. The Transport Layer will be the space backbone for the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) infrastructure with low-latency data transport, sensor-to-shooter connectivity, and tactical satellite communication (TACSATCOM) direct to platform. Follow-on PWSA Tranches in FY25 and FY27 will enhance capacity and capabilities to go from Regional Persistence to Global Persistence.