Space Situation Awareness Systems

Abstract

Deep Space Advanced Radar Concept (DARC) will leverage ongoing defense science and technology efforts to mature radar concepts and technologies to develop and evaluate prototypes that demonstrate increased sensitivity, capacity, search rates, and scalability to detect, track and maintain custody of objects in deep space orbit. This effort will analyze and select the most promising technologies to move forward into system development and /or operations; eventually creating a program of record (PoR). DARC will augment the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) as an additional sensor with increased capacity and capability for deep space object custody at Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO). The current and future space domain demands that space systems be responsive to new and changing threats, and can rapidly integrate new capabilities to make our warfighting force more resilient in a contested battlespace. This agility, survivability, and rapid reconstitution must extend through the entire space warfighting enterprise, to include how we learn about the threat; develop solutions; acquire, test, deploy, train, operate and integrate new systems into the greater system of systems; and ensure our space mission force is ready to defeat a thinking adversary in a complex, multi-domain battlespace. The enterprise will use all of its elements to accelerate decision-making, prototype potential solutions, rapidly integrate decision-making tools and sustain a war-winning capability by delivering multi-domain effects in, from, and through space and cyberspace enabling battle management and resilience options to "fight through." This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver the DARC weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392F and 1206398F. The FY2019 funding request was reduced by $10.000M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. This program is 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, 2019
• Source ID: 1206425F_4_3600_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2017: -$1.000M Request for Additional Appropriation (RAA) back-out
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Battle Management
• Contracts
• Costs
• Deep Space
• Demonstrations
• Earth Orbits
• Engineering
• Integrated Systems
• Prototypes
• Situational Awareness
• Space Objects
• Space Surveillance
• Space Systems
• System Of Systems
• Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space
• Space - Space Objects