Space Situation Awareness Operations
Abstract
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is one of five core competencies of the Space Force and is the effective identification, characterization, and understanding of any factor, passive or active, associated with the space domain that could affect space operations and thereby impact the security, safety, economy, or environment of our nation. As the foundation for space control, SDA encompasses surveillance of all space objects and activities; detailed surveillance of specific space assets; monitoring space environmental conditions; monitoring cooperative space assets; gathering indications and warning on adversary space operations; and conducting integrated command, control, communications, processing, analysis, dissemination, and archiving activities. This program fields, upgrades, operationalizes, operates, and maintains Space Force sensors and information/data integration capabilities within the SDA network while companion program element 1206425SF, Space Situational Awareness Systems, develops new network sensors and associated information integration capabilities across the network. Activities funded in this program (1203940SF) focus on surveillance of objects in earth orbit to aid tasks including satellite tracking; space object identification; tracking and cataloging; satellite attack warning; notification of satellite flyovers to U.S. forces; space treaty monitoring; and technical intelligence gathering. As a whole, this program upgrades, modifies, modernizes, operationalizes, fields, operates, and maintains sensors and information integration capabilities for an integrated, end-to-end SDA architecture that provides critical national security space solutions on tactical operational timelines. The Space Data Fusion project (673940) develops and/or upgrades SDA data/data exploitation capabilities, to include Space Surveillance Telescopes, TAPOUT, and provides Service Life Extension Programs (SLEPs) and pre-planned product improvement efforts to operational SDA capability. In FY 2023, this project includes Global Sensor Watch (GSW) efforts that support the SDA activities outlined above. The Unified Data Library project (673941) supports integration, exploitation, and delivery of data sources for command and control and battle management of space forces. UDL will continue to develop the library by on-boarding new data sets, expand data services, expand defensive cyber operations capabilities, add non-metric data to the SDA marketplace, continue to expand local area network capability to share Space Surveillance Network (SSN) data in a cyber-secure manner, purchase commercial data and services to support USSPACECOM operations, allow optimized data flow for use of existing SDA capability, and provide access to new commercial SDA innovations that will enable the broader SDA mission. The Sensor SLEP project (67A017) includes efforts to upgrade, operationalize, and extend the life of operational SDA sensors and to develop and expand SDA data/ data exploitation capability. SLEPs extend the serviceable life of assets and maintain critical capability by replacing aging and increasingly unsustainable components with modern and sustainable equipment. Sensor SLEP efforts may include SDA sensor, SDA communications, and SDA data/data exploitation, prototyping and technology demonstrations. The SF Weather Services Research project (67A018) funds the operational development necessary to acquire, sustain, and modernize Air Force Weather Service (AFWS) capabilities in support of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. AFWS provides timely, accurate, resilient, and relevant environmental information to enable global battlespace situational awareness for Air Force (AF), Army, Special Operations Forces (SOF), Space Force (USSF), combatant commands, the Intelligence Community (IC), and other government agencies. AFWS provides climate impacts and assessments, as well as space and terrestrial weather sensing, forecasting, and weather analytic capabilities, at home station and deployed, in order to deliver critical environmental intelligence in support of decision makers to gain the asymmetric advantage during the full spectrum of air and space combat operations. Space acquisition must respond with speed and agility to emerging adversary threats. Space Systems Command (SSC) has transformed the organization and implementation of space acquisition to an enterprise approach, to increase 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, SSC will strategically execute experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts to develop new or re-purpose existing capabilities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF. 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 1203940SF_7_3620F_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2021: -1.739 reduction for SBIR. FY 2023: The FY 2022 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY 2023 through FY 2026 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the change between the two budget positions for FY 2023 cannot be made in a relevant manner.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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