SLIDE 9 DRAFT DRAFT 9
SMC Force Enhancement Wings/Groups
Military Satellite Communications
Mission: Plan for, acquire and sustain space-enabled, global communications capabilities to support National Objectives
Space Based Infrared Systems Wing
Mission: Define, develop, field, and sustain space-based infrared surveillance, tracking and targeting capabilities for the nation. Missile Warning / Missile Defense Mission: Acquire and sustain survivable, effective, and affordable global positioning & timing services
Global Positioning Systems Wing
Brig Gen Samuel Greaves Providing Critical Communications Capability for National / Joint Force Operations
Defense Meteorological Systems Group
Mission:
- Provide timely and accurate
worldwide environmental data to DoD and national program users B th D D’ i id Col Roger Teague Defining the future of space-based IR surveillance now Battlespace Awareness
Theater Space
IR Intensity Event Duration IR Intensity Event Duration
- Missile characterization
- Space object signatures
and characteristics
- Phenomenology
- Other target data
Technical Intelligence
17 for our military and civil users Col Dave Madden Deliver and Sustain Global Navigation & Timing Service
- Be the DoD’s premiere provider
- f worldwide terrestrial and
space environmental data
Thin high clouds 20,000-25,000 ft Snow cover on mountain tops Clear skies over mountains/deserts Thin high clouds 20,000-25,000 ft Thin high clouds 20,000-25,000 ft Snow cover on mountain tops Snow cover on mountain tops Clear skies over mountains/deserts Clear skies over mountains/deserts
Col Steve Pluntze
Providing Direct Warfighter Support Systems
SMC Space Superiority Wings and Groups
Mission: We develop, deliver, and sustain unrivaled space control capabilities to guarantee space superiority for our nation
Space Superiority Systems Wing
Col Michael Taylor Delivering integrated Space Control to the Warfighter Space Control Mission Area Mission:
The Missile Defense Agency is mandated by Congress and Presidentially chartered to develop and acquire highly effective Ballistic Missile Defense Systems for forward- deployed and expeditionary elements of the U.S. forces. Additionally, MDA develops and acquires national missile defense systems for defense of the U S while maintaining
Missile Defense Systems Group
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defense systems for defense of the U.S. while maintaining technology options for future missile defense needs.
Col Jay P. Morgan Deliver unrivaled space-based-sensor surveillance, tracking, targeting, discrimination, engagement and assessment capabilities to the joint warfighter
Delivering Capability to Assure the Defense/Superiority of US Space
