Title: IPA Prep Meeting
1Transforming National Security Space Payloads
VINCENT J. DENO, 1Lt, USAF Lead, Space Operations
Demonstrations EDWARD NED JONES, 2Lt,
USAF Space Support Developmental Engineer T.
RYAN SPACE, Capt, USAF Chief, Advanced Concept
Demonstrations
2Purpose
- Rationale for responsive space
- Changing face of warfare in information age
- Asymmetric and adaptive enemy
- Network Centric Warfare (NCW)
- Responsive space attributes/elements to enable
tactical capabilities and effects - Multiple approaches to responsive space
- Responsive lift, payload integration and
initialization - Responsive spacecraft payload reconfiguration
- Responsive maneuver or optimization
- Tactical satellite (TacSat) mission opportunities
See associated paper for references
3Increasing Global Operations
Courtesy of Office of Force Transformation (OFT)
4Network Centric Warfare Information Age Theory
of War
Information Richness
- Content
- Accuracy
- Timeliness
- Relevance
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Platform Centric Warfighting Concepts
Information Reach
Courtesy of Office of Force Transformation (OFT)
5Responsive SpaceA Component of the Joint Force
- Attributes of Responsive Space
- Tailorable payload and coverage for emergent
operational needs (address niches) - Low cost / risk tolerant
- Global, persistent/prompt, access to denied areas
- Tactical control of payload, direct-to-theater,
cross-platform missions - Enables global strike within 2 hrs from an alert
posture against wide array of anti-access and
hardened targets without need to forward deploy - Allows critical warfighting capabilities to be
replaced in the event of Red Force attack - Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
(ISR) - Precision Navigation Timing (PNT)
- Communications
- Augment the operational warfighters ability to
conduct time-sensitive operations (Targeting/BDA)
Tactical Satellite (TacSat) and microsat
initiatives are key components of Operationally
Responsive Space
6Tactical Space Vision
7Responsive Space Objective Timelines
Development
Deployment
Operations
Months
Seconds
- Development Time required to design, build, and
test spacecraft hardware - Currently 2 to 10 years
- To counter adversarys changing tactics and
adaptations, new/niche warfighter capabilities
must be developed within 6-9 months - Deployment Time required to integrate, launch,
and deliver space systems - Currently 3 to 12 months
- To support responsive operations, space-based
assets must be in place and ready for operation
within hours of a request for support - Operate Time required to deliver
products/effects - Current timelines depend on system/mission,
typically hours/days - To support a tactical user, space system
operations must respond in timelines consistent
with battlefield operations (continuous/seconds)
8The Risk Cycle
9The Risk Cycle
10Breaking the Risk Cycle
11Breaking the Risk Cycle
- Paradigm Shift
- Small Empowered Teams
- Fixed Cost/Secure Funding
- Performance as a Dependent Variable
- Compressed Schedule
- Rapid Prototyping Development
- Unproven/Advanced Technologies
- Prudent Analysis Testing
Cost-Commensurate Risk Tolerant
Rapid Development
12TacSat Initiative Approach
13One Concept Magic Orbit
- Responsive Wartime deployment
- Continuous 24/7 rolling start service during
major conflicts - Fast burn to inject into Magic Orbit (2 hrs
deployment) - Advantages of Magic Orbit for Tactical User
- Persistence Small constellation results in near
24/7 coverage over theater - Higher performance - Lower altitude
- Predictable coverage - Repeating ground track
14Magic Orbit RF (MORF) Special Forces Coalition
Comm
Multi-Band Transponders
Coalition comm awareness Scheduled
communications Iridium augmentation Aircraft
position awareness
- Capabilities
- Multi-band receivers
- UHF Military LOS, MSS
- L/S-band
- MSS Iridium, Globalstar, Thuraya, ICO
- Aircraft position reporting
- SHF feeder link to GIG-BE regional node
- Option downlink transmitter
- 5MHz DoD band or full Iridium band
GIG-BE Regional Node
15BLUE MAJIC Top Level Theater Architecture
CONUS Reachback Provided by Existing GEO Comsats
Linked to MAJIC Satellites
GPS Satellites Provides Position Information
Microsats Achieve Highly Elliptical (Magic) Orbit
w/Low Cost LV (3-5 Satellites Provide 24/7
Theater Coverage)
Communication System MAJIC Microsats in Magic
Orbits Offer Comm Architecture to the Field in
Real Time, w/GEO Reachback
Information System Ground Troops outfitted with
Personal Data Transmitters (PDTs) in Theater
Xmit GPS Location and Identity to MAJIC
Microsats, in Turn to CAOC
Combined Air Ops Center (CAOC) In Theater
VMGS Terminal Connects Theater w/CONUS
PDTs
RASCAL/FALCON Provide Launch On- Demand Directly
to Theater Commander
Comm Terminals
MAJIC Provides Theater Users Commanders with
Pre-Deployed Troop Asset Location and Comm Access
16TacSat-II RoadRunner
17Target Detection and IDHyper-Spectral Imaging
(HSI)
Counter-Deception
Counter-Camouflage
CBRNE Detection
- In JEFX, real time HSI targeting data uploaded to
F-15 cockpit - HSI identified bare, camouflaged, and decoy
targets - Bare and camouflaged targets were under trees and
not seen by F-15 FLIRs
18FALCON Demo Common Aero Vehicle
- Capabilities enabled by responsive spacelift
- Strike targets anywhere from CONUS in 120 minutes
or less. - Increased warfighting capability against hard and
deeply buried targets. - Minimizes over flight and landing issues and
concerns. - Avoids risk to flight crews
- Relatively invulnerable to anti-access threats.
- Cost competitive with other platforms
- Approx. Performance Requirements
- Precision strike
- Variety of conventional payloads
- In-flight target updates
- Worldwide, all weather range
Responds to DPG and NPR requirements for
long-range prompt precision strike and the
evolution of systems to overcome anti-access
technologies and tactics
Only prompt conventional means to strike fleeting
targets from outside theater
19Conclusion
- Transformational payloads provide direct support
to the tactical warfighter - Changes to current way of doing business is
required to meet development, deployment, and
operation timelines - Collaboration of responsive launch and payload
programs will ensure US relevancy in space - TacSat initiative and microsats are critical
elements of the Operationally Responsive Space
vision