Space Protection Program

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) 1206730F, Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) funds Department of Defense (DoD)/United States Space Force (USSF) Space Security and Defense Program. 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, nonmateriel, cross-Title, cross-domain) leading to a more resilient National Security Space (NSS) Enterprise to support stakeholders including the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), civil, commercial, and international space entities/missions; supporting national security missions in both peacetime and throughout all phases of conflict. 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 NSS susceptibility and vulnerability assessments, and lead threat mitigation processes. SSDP's unique position within the DoD and ODNI, authorities from DEPSECDEF and PDDNI, and broad NSS-scoped mission-set provides a crucial and objective protection competency; advancing the highest priority efforts to deliver economical, programmatically-executable, and operationally-relevant space protection solutions for the Nation. SSDP's scope includes the capability to conduct rigorous foundational analyses in order to understand the threat and operations environments, and plan and execute projects to discover, analyze, and validate near-term and far-term options to mitigate these threats, render adversary capabilities ineffective, and result in more resilient space effects for national security missions. Validated options/solutions to mitigate/defeat adversary counterspace threats are proposed to NSS stakeholders and introduced into their requisite requirements, budgetary, and investment decision processes; manifesting themselves (as appropriate) in Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), space policy, and Space Control mission area force design recommendations including technical system and/or architectural recommendations. It is important to note that SSDP's mission is distinctly different from the USSF's Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC); focusing its efforts on the Space Control mission area for the NSS enterprise while the SWAC's mission is aligned with Service authorities and focuses on USSF-specific priorities. SSDP will continue to share their extensive threat models and analyses with the SWAC to ensure efficiency and speed of analysis. This program element may include necessary emergent or unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage and execute SSDP and/or deliver products for emergent or unanticipated weapon system capabilities. 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, 2023
• Source ID: 64A025_1206730SF_4_3620F_PB_2023

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Defense Acquisition Program Management

Technology Areas

• Space