Enhancing space resilience through non-materiel means / Gary McLeod [et al.]

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

McLeod, Gary, 1948- Author.

Dreyer, Paul, Author.

Nacouzi, George, Author.

Eisman, Mel, Author.

Torrington, Geoffrey, Author.

Langeland, Krista S., Author.

Manheim, David, Author.

Hura, Myron, Author.

Contributor:

Dreyer, Paul, Contributor.

Nacouzi, George, Contributor.

Rand Corporation, Content Provider.

Project Air Force (U.S.), Content Provider.

Series:

Research report Enhancing space resilience through non-materiel means

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronautics, Military--History--21st century--United States.

Astronautics, Military.

Space security--History--21st century.

Space security.

Organizational resilience--History--21st century.

Organizational resilience.

United States. Air Force--Operational readiness.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 70 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2016

Santa Monica, Ca : Rand Corporation, 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Space is now a congested, contested, and competitive environment. Space systems must become more resilient to potential adversary actions and system failures, but changes to space systems are costly. To provide a complete look at resilience and possibly realize some benefit at lower cost, the Air Force asked RAND to identify non-materiel means--doctrine, organization, training, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy--to enhance space resilience over the near and far terms. The authors developed implementation options to improve resilience based on a notional space protection operational concept: enhancing the capability of space operators to respond, in a timely and effective manner, to adversary counterspace actions. Operators need actionable information, appropriate organization and tactics, and dynamic command and control, supported by appropriate tools and decision aids, relevant training and exercises, and qualified personnel brought into the career field. The authors also recommend that Air Force Space Command develop a formal, end-to-end, space protection concept of operations (CONOPS) that captures all elements needed to improve resilience. In addition, the CONOPS could potentially follow the tenet of centralized control and decentralized execution in certain situations, such as when responding to adversary counterspace actions. For the near-term options, the rough order of magnitude (ROM) nonrecurring engineering (NRE) cost of implementation is estimated to be between $2.5 million and $3.6 million. For the far-term options, the ROM NRE cost is estimated to be between $109 million and $166 million, with the ROM recurring cost between $4 million and $5.4 million per year"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface

Figures

Tables

Summary

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Background

Objectives

Scope

Space resilience

Approach

Report structure

2. Resilience and civil institutions: General approaches for building resilient operations: Impact avoidance

Adaptation and flexibility

Recovery and restoration

Potential applications to the space operations community

3. Resilience and U.S. government civil space agencies: Civil policy considerations: Full and open access

Rapid delivery

Continuity of operations

Security classification

Civil practices: Information

Organization and tactics

Command and control

Training

Personnel

4. Resilience and Air Force space operations: Operational concept

Findings: information: Space order of battle

Limited intelligence at SOPS/SWS

Space knowledge of intelligence personnel

Space Weather effects

Findings: organization and tactics: Space protection lead

Space protection tactics

Tactics-sharing

Findings: command and control: Satellite C2 contacts

Responsibilities and authorities

Anomaly resolution

Findings: training: Space protection training

Exercises

Multiple satellite C2 systems

Findings: personnel: Initial qualifications

Career progression

Trained operators

Cost of implementation options

Detailed recommendations

5. Resilience and a world with international and commercial partners: Information

6. Recommendations: Overarching recommendations: Resilience as a priority

Space protection CONOPS

Detailed recommendations: Near-term recommendations

Far-term recommendations

ROM costs

Appendix A: Space resilience cost analysis.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

"RR-1067-AF"--Page 4 of cover

ISBN:

0-8330-9515-3