Space Technology

Abstract

This Program Element focuses on four major areas. First, space survivability and surveillance develops technologies to understand space weather and the geophysics environment for mitigation and exploitation of these effects to Air Force systems. Second, spacecraft payload technologies improve satellite payload operations by developing advanced component and subsystem capabilities. Third, spacecraft protection develops technologies for protecting U.S. space assets in potential hostile settings. The last major area, spacecraft vehicles, focuses on spacecraft platform and control technologies, and their interactions. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research, since it develops and determines the technical feasibility and military utility of evolutionary and revolutionary space technologies.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0602601F_2_3600_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY13 Other Adjustments was due to Sequestration. Decrease in FY15 is due to higher DoD priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Satellites
• Composite Materials
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Frequency Bands
• Low Earth Orbits
• Navigation
• Radio Frequency
• Satellite Buses
• Satellite Communications
• Space Communications
• Space Environments
• Space Objects
• Space Systems
• Space Weather
• Spacecraft
• Surveillance

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Space
• Space - Satellites