Space Protection Program

Abstract

This Program Element funds the Department of Defense (DoD)/Air Force component of the Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP). The SSDP is a Joint DoD and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) organization established to function as the center of excellence for options and strategies (materiel, non- materiel, cross-Title, cross-domain) leading to a more resilient and enduring National Security Space (NSS) Enterprise. The SSDP operates under the authority of the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DEPSECDEF) and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) to lead and collaborate on space protection vulnerability, susceptibility, and mitigation assessments of NSS services for the purpose of identifying, assessing, validating and introducing protection solutions into existing requirements, budgeting, acquisition, technology development and operational development processes. This unique mission provides an ongoing and crucial core protection competency that advances specific projects/activities (including non-kinetic techniques) to deliver comprehensive, economical and actionable solutions for both programmatic and operational domains. The SSDP scope spans multiple space missions and stakeholders including the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), civil, commercial, and international space entities that support NSS missions in both peacetime and throughout all phases of conflict. It is focused on being responsive to NSS stakeholders in providing technical and operational assessments of emergent threat concepts, and developing near-term and far-term plans to address strategies, threats, and vulnerabilities. Specific SSDP Projects are structured/designed to have an impact across all time horizons; near-term focused efforts to complicate adversary operations, mid-term focused efforts to improve system and enterprise survivability, and long-term focused efforts to render adversary capabilities ineffective. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver SSDP capability leading to a more resilient and enduring NSS enterprise. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392F and 1206398F. This effort 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: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 64A025_1206730F_4_3600_PB_2021

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

• Space