Protecting Space in a Contested and Congested Domain

Abstract

Our Nation is in a period of "persistent conflict" where we are confronted by state, non-state, and individual players who are not constrained from using violence to achieve their goals. The Army has a role in dealing with this persistent conflict: "to prevail in protracted counterinsurgency campaigns; engage to help other countries build capacity and assure friends and allies; support civil authorities at home and abroad; and deter and defeat hybrid threats and hostile state actors." Today's military is increasingly reliant on space-based assets to provide critical enablers for mission success, i.e., satellite communications, positioning, navigation and timing, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, just to name a few. If our space systems are ambushed, how do we quickly understand what happened and react? How will the Army prevail in a denied, degraded, disrupted space operational environment (D3SOE)? Determining the answers to those questions is a critical task for every FA40 Space Operations Officer and space Enabler.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA526377

Entities

People

  • Kurt S. Story

Organizations

  • United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Artillery
  • Cyberattacks
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Hybrid Threats
  • Information Operations
  • Networks
  • Satellite Communications
  • Space Based
  • Space Operations
  • Space Systems
  • Training
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Space