Space Control Technology

Abstract

This program supports a range of activities including technology planning, development, demonstrations and prototyping, as well as modeling, simulations and exercises to support development of tactics and procedures in the Space Control mission area. The types of Space Control activities accomplished are Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Defensive Counterspace (DCS), Offensive Counterspace (OCS) and Command and Control (C2) and Battle Management. For use in the Space Control mission area, SSA includes monitoring, detecting, identifying, tracking, assessing, verifying, categorizing, and characterizing, objects and events in space and includes terrestrial based space capabilities. DCS includes defensive activities to protect U.S. and friendly space-systems assets, resources, and operations from enemy attempts to negate or interfere and prevention activities that limit or eliminate an adversary's ability to use U.S. space systems and services for purposes hostile to U.S. national security interests. OCS activities disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy space systems, or the information they provide, which may be used for purposes hostile to U.S. national security interests. Command & Control efforts include identifying technology solutions to enable fusion of data for use in multi-level security environments, and near-real-time data delivery and decision support to war fighter needs. This program supports the development of Rapid Reaction Capabilities in response to immediate warfighter needs in the Space Control mission area. Funding also supports the development of the technology and infrastructure for space control elements of the Space Test and Training Range (STTR). This includes development and demonstration of test assets, special test equipment, capabilities and systems required to test, validate, and verify performance of integrated space control systems. Additionally, this program supports the development of test range assets required to support developmental and operational test, exercises, training, and tactics development for space control systems. A collaborative command & control capability will be integrated into several range systems to provide real time communications during test event scenarios. These projects are in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0603438F_4_3600_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: FY2012: -$1.082M for SBIR FY2014: +$2.00M for Joint Force closed loop trainer - $0.135 for higher Department priorities
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Artificial Satellites
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Environment
• National Security
• Prototypes
• Situational Awareness
• Small Satellites
• Space Objects
• Space Situational Awareness
• Space Surveillance
• Space Systems
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space