Transforming National Space Security: Enabling DoD and Intelligence Community Defensive Space Control Collaboration

摘要

Today's national security environment is characterized by rapidly evolving and fleeting intelligence targets in an increasingly challenging operational environment. As you would imagine, the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) are working to counter these rapidly changing threats and continuously assess methodologies, tools, and procedures. Ultimately, we must provide timely, value added, target quality information to our toughest customers -- our warriors, leaders, and analytic support customers. DoD and IC space assets, working in concert with airborne and ground systems, are vital components of the overall collection architecture that provides the nation global situational awareness, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), targeting information, and critical strategic indications and warnings. America's combined space architecture gives national policy makers and military leaders, analysts, and operators timely and responsive access to denied areas, unparalleled collection capabilities, and precision data at little risk to human life. The DoD, IC, and increasingly, commercial overhead collection systems, further provide critical enabling capabilities when operating in concert with a wide realm of intelligence partners.