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He said Raymond has been emphatic about forging stronger ties with allies. forces have all the space support they need, and we provide support to key allies,” Whiting, the commander of CSFCC, told SpaceNews Oct. The “C” in CFSCC stands for combined, which emphasizes the role of allies. SPACECOM is big on working with allies but can’t share everything CFSCC oversees the Air Force’s five space wings and ensures space capabilities such as GPS navigation and satellite-based communications are available to U.S. The finalists are Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal, California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base and Colorado’s Peterson Air Force Base, Buckley Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, and Schriever Air Force Base. And a permanent location for its headquarters has yet to be decided. The appropriate size and staffing for the command is still being studied.

And getting there will depend on “ensuring the command has the right capabilities in place to fully accomplish its mission,” says a U.S. Raymond and his staff are in the process of defining the criteria for achieving those goals. Officials said it could take up to a year to reach “initial operational capability” and longer than that to achieve “full operational capability.” “We never had that before,” Raymond said of JTF-SD, “an operational level command solely focused on protecting and defending that domain.”īut much work remains to be done for the command to be fully operational. Thomas James was named commander of JTF-SD. The JTF-SD will be in charge of monitoring potential threats and drawing up options to defend satellites if they come under attack. intelligence community, the classified National Space Defense Center. The JTF-SD, located at Schriever, is a new organization that will operate, along with the U.S. The 14th Air Force oversees the Air Force’s five space wings.

In that capacity, he reports to Raymond as head of Air Force Space Command. Stephen Whiting, is also the commander of the 14th Air Force. and allied personnel track objects and activities in space. It also operates the Combined Space Operations Center (CspOC) where U.S. The CFSCC oversees more than 70 Air Force, Army and Navy space units and ensures space capabilities such as GPS navigation and satellite-based communications are available to U.S. SPACECOM will be supported by two field organizations: a Combined Force Space Component Command (CFSCC) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California and a Joint Task Force Space Defense (JTF-SD) at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. Raymond, who retained his command of Air Force Space Command, is considered dual-hatted. Dickinson will relinquish the Army SMDC post in the coming months when a replacement is named. James Dickinson, who is also the commander of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Alabama.

SPACECOM’s temporary headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Raymond has been authorized to build a roughly 300-person staff at U.S. SPACECOM has been established but is not yet fully operational

#You are the most astute space warfare commander full#

Strategic Command, whose primary focus is nuclear deterrence, it would not get the full attention and visibility it deserves, he said.

“That threat required us to make a change,” Raymond said.Īs long as space remained the responsibility of U.S. Meanwhile, China and Russia have developed electronic and kinetic weapons that, military leaders warn, could be used against U.S. SPACECOM was shuttered, the military has grown more dependent on satellites for every aspect of military operations. 27 at a Mitchell Institute talk on Capitol Hill. “The major difference is the environment,” Raymond said Sept. SPACECOM is different from its predecessor. 29 ceremony at the White House was technically a re-activation of the command, officials point that this U.S. Strategic Command in 2002 in a post-9/11 realignment of military resources. The United States first stood up Space Command in 1985 but merged it with U.S. SPACECOM will treat outer space as a theater of war Based on what we have learned so far, here are five important things to know about the new command.