Resilient partnerships for U.S. military satellite communication missions : designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience / Bonnie L. Triezenberg, Krista Langeland, Gary McLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triezenberg, Bonnie L., author.

Langeland, Krista S., author.

McLeod, Gary, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-A584-1.

Research report / RAND Corporation ; RR-A584-1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Space Force--Communication systems--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Space Force--Communication systems--Reliability.

United States. Space Force--Operational readiness--Evaluation.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States--Evaluation.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States--Reliability.

Public-private sector cooperation--United States--Evaluation.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Communications, Military--Evaluation.

Communications, Military.

United States--Armed Forces--Communication systems--Evaluation.

United States--Armed Forces--Operational readiness--Evaluation.

Commercial Satellites.

Military Communication Systems.

Military Satellites.

Operational Readiness.

Satellite Communication.

United States Space Force.

Local Subjects:

Commercial Satellites.

Military Communication Systems.

Military Satellites.

Operational Readiness.

Satellite Communication.

United States Space Force.

Physical Description:

ix, 65 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Resilient partnerships for United States military satellite communication missions : designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, [2024]

Summary:

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is seeking to enhance the resilience of its space operations. This report documents the authors' development of a methodology to define, assess, and evaluate resilience criteria over time--with a focus on the qualitative assessments of subject-matter experts (SMEs)--and the application of that methodology to measure the impact of partnerships on the operational resilience of the U.S. military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) mission. The authors used semistructured interviews to elicit logic models regarding how and why integrating partners into MILSATCOM missions could affect resilience. The authors then formulated explanatory paired logic statements about how partnerships affect resilience and used these paired logic statements in a survey designed to ascertain whether the paired items are independent factors that should be modeled as separate inputs in later quantitative resilience modeling. The authors find that SME consensus appears to be deeply affected by the confounding factor that U.S. military personnel believe that the United States lacks the tools, training, and procedures needed to rapidly reallocate MILSATCOM resources in response to an adversary attack. Until this is remedied, more-detailed analyses regarding how best to integrate coalition and commercial partner resources will be obscured by a lack of trust that those resources can and will be properly integrated. The report should be of interest to those seeking to understand how partnerships can be leveraged to improve the resilience of the MILSATCOM mission and those interested in methods to evaluate the validity of qualitative assessments about those partnerships.

Contents:

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Methodology

Chapter Three: Application of the Methodology

Chapter Four: Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A: Use Cases from Public-Private Partnerships

Appendix B: Network Analysis

Appendix C: Data Collection

Interview Protocol

Appendix D: Data Collection

Community Attitude Survey.

Notes:

"Prepared for the Department of the Air Force, approved for public release; distribution unlimited."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1977412580

9781977412584

OCLC:

1418888135