Operationally Responsive Space: Creating Responsive Space for America
Abstract
Tactical space support has earned a reputation as unresponsive and the Operationally Responsive Space Office was created in 2007 to address this for the military. The intent of this course project is to use an educational research approach to develop a future architecture that will make space responsive in 2025. This paper evaluates the shortcomings that hinder quick and effective space-based support to the U.S. Military and Intelligence Community. The current space community is fragmented, preventing quick, unified decisions, and does not have the executive clout necessary to lead effectively. Our group's solution creates a Department of Space at the cabinet level. The Department of Space will unify the space community, promoting quicker decisions with one common and consistent vision. This change would enable unified plans and policies as well as allow one organization to prioritize all of the space programs. The responsive culture would facilitate other needed changes to Space Operations, Launch, and Acquisition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 20, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA488040
Entities
People
- Alexander Bein
- Alexander Braszko
- Brian Anderson
- Corey Collier
- Gerry Gleckel
- Gregory Fitzgearld
- Mathew Crook
- Phillip Smith
- Richard Arledge
- Samuel Messer
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School