Space Innovation, Integration and Rapid Technology Development

Abstract

Located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, the Space Innovation and Development Center (SIDC) develops, evaluates, tests, and integrates space application and utility concepts, as well as new technologies, while providing combat effects to warfighters, such as aid in mission planning of Global Positioning System (GPS) aided/guided munitions. Its innovation, education, and training activities foster solutions to operational deficiencies and enhance the integration of space systems into Air Force operations, thereby enabling service and joint warfighters to realize the full potential of existing and planned space capabilities. The Space Analysis and Application Development project develops and modifies modeling and simulation tools that Air Force Space Command's Space Analysis Center uses for operations research, military utility analyses, tradeoff studies, and other evaluations of space mission areas to guide planning, programming, requirements generation, analyses of alternatives, and other activities. Development activities incorporate changes in fielded and projected space operational capabilities, as well as technical improvements, into the group's software tools to ensure their data and technology remain current. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0305174F_7_3600_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Operations
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Education
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Military Education
  • Missions
  • Production
  • Simulations
  • Space Missions
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Validation
  • Verification

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Technology Areas

  • Space

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