National Space Defense Center

Abstract

This $2.687M FY21 budget request for NSDC in Appropriation Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Air Force, PE 1203620F, should have been requested in PE 1203620SF, Appropriation Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Space Force. Funds will be transferred to Space Force in the next year's budget request. This program will develop, upgrade and field the National Space Defense Center's (NSDC) operational infrastructure integrating mission partner networks, data and other hardware and software solutions into NSDC's technical baseline. Additionally, this program will provide for agile requirement development, and operational and developmental test activities supporting software Development in Operations (DevOps). The NSDC allows the national security space community to effectively respond to potential future space threat events and will have the capability to develop, test, and integrate new space system tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) in support of both DoD and Intelligence Community operations. Space acquisition must respond with speed and agility to emerging adversary threats. Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC) is transforming the organization and implementation of space acquisition to an enterprise approach, maximizing innovation and resiliency, leveraging international, commercial, and mission partnerships, and managing program/project priorities according to an integrated unclassified/classified enterprise space architecture. Expanding the appropriate acquisition authorities and contract mechanisms to deliver capability sooner, SMC will strategically execute experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts to develop new or re-purpose capabilities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver NSDC capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392F and 1206398F 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.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
1203620F_7_3600_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Battle Management
  • Command And Control
  • Communities
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Intelligence Community
  • National Security
  • Product Prototyping
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Defense
  • Space Force
  • Space Systems
  • Task Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Strategic Command

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space

Related Documents