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Navigating the Kármán Line: Integrating Military Air and Space
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spirtas, Michael
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Navigating the Kármán Line
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- In 2019, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) established the U.S. Space Force (USSF), a separate armed service for space. The authors of this report seek to understand potential areas and types of friction that might arise between the USSF and other government entities, with a focus on the relationship between the USSF and the U.S. Air Force (USAF), and to offer some options to mitigate potential friction. To research this issue, the authors organized along three general tasks—organizational analysis, tactical analysis, and a review of governance mechanisms—to inform options for managing and mitigating friction. The organizational analysis focused on roles and missions relating to air-space integration to identify potential sources of friction. The tactical analysis developed models for three hypothetical use cases where air and space forces work together in tactical operations to identify potential areas of friction and to gain more of an incremental understanding of that relationship and insight into potential friction points. The third task examines governance mechanisms within DoD to understand how decisions are made in joint settings and inside other DoD departments, and to inform decisionmaking structures inside the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
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