Air Force Space Command's Environmental Monitoring Requirements and Planning Process

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Air Force Space Command's Environmental
Monitoring Requirements and Planning Process
This Briefing Is Unclassified

• 2 Feb 05

Maj Richard Krash Krasner Directorate of
Requirements Headquarters Air Force Space Command
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Overview

• DoD requirement for tropospheric winds
• AF Planning, Requirements, and Acquisition
  process overview
• AFSPC Partnerships

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DoD Tropospheric Winds Requirement

• 4.1.6.8.1 Tropospheric Winds (DOC/DoD). Wind
  measured throughout the troposphere. Wind profile
  required for cloud returns and planetary boundary
  layer aerosol returns.
• Systems Capabilities Thresholds Objectives
• a. Vertical Coverage Surface to 20 km
• b. Horizontal Resolution 50 km
• c. Vertical Reporting Interval 0.1 km
• d. Mapping Uncertainty 10 km
• e. Measurement Range 0 to 100 m s-1
• f. Measurement Precision 0.5 m s-1, vector
  winds
• g. Measurement Accuracy 1 m s-1, horiz.
  components
• h. Latency 15 min
• i. Refresh 1 hour

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Application of Tropospheric Winds

• Near-real time analysis of global tropospheric
  winds
• Important environmental intelligence made
  available via command and control systems to aid
  operational decision cycles
• Input to numerical weather prediction models
• More accurate modeling improves planning and
  execution of a broad scale of joint military
  missions

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Military Missions Impacted by Improved NWP

• A Few Examples
• Space Launch
• Flight Planning/Avn Ops
• Dispersion Forecasts for NBC Releases
• Precision Weapons Delivery/Strike Option Planning
• Precision Airdrop
• Reconnaissance
• Aerial Refueling
• Artillery
• Battle Space Awareness

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Air Force Space Command

• Supports all military services and combatant
  commands, with space forces to control and
  exploit space on a global basis, and in defense
  of the United States and its interests
• Organizes, trains, and equips Air Force space and
  intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) forces
  for space control, force application, force
  enhancement and space support

If youre not in space, youre not in the race
--Gen Lance W. Lord AFSPC/CC
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Air Force Space Commands Vision
A Full Spectrum Space Combat Command Preeminent
in the Application of Space Power for National
Security and Joint Warfare
Air Space Force
XO
DR
PROGRAMS
XP
Fielded Capabilities
REQUIREMENTS
PLANS
Warfighters Needs
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AF Planning Process
National Guidance
DoD/Joint Guidance
Air Force Guidance
AF CONOPs
CRRA
Capabilities Planning Process
Strategic Master Plan MAPs/MSP/CSP
Joint Capability Integration Development
System
Acquisition Management System
Product Center/ST Community
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AF Planning Process
What materiel solutions are possible? Identify
ST needs.
What do we do?
How well do we do it now? How well do we need to
do it? What is the resulting need? Do we need a
materiel solution? Identify ST needs.
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Planning and Requirement Process
Guidance
Combatant Commander Needs
CRRA
Joint Flag Coordination
Tech Insertion
Top-DownDirected
AFSPC Strategic Master Plan / MAPs
HQ AFSPC REQUIREMENTS DIRECTORATE
Air Force Joint Staff Coord
HQ AFSPC Plans/ Programs Directorate
Command Lead Appointed
AFSPC Group/ Board/ Council
Mission Needs Analysis
Requirements Strategy Review
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National Security Space (NSS)Acquisition Policy

• Defines an Acquisition Decision Process that
  works in parallel to standard acquisition process
• Defines Defense Space Acquisition Board process
• Separates Key Decision Points from contractual
  actions to allow for greater program flexibility
• Allows smart tailoring to match individual
  program needs and constraints

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Acquisition Focused Space Systems
Analysis of Alternatives
Initial Capabilities Document
Capability Production Document
Capability Development Document
System Concept Doc
1st Launch
A
B
C
FOC
IOC
Pre-KDP A Activities
Phase C Build, Test, Launch Acquisition
Operations Support
Phase B Design Phase
Phase A Study Phase
Sys Demo
LRIP, IOTE, FRP, FOTE
Concept Decision
LRIP Decision
Critical Design Review
FRP Decision
Post-system Acquisition
Pre-system Acquisition
System Acquisition
MDA Key Decision Points
Other Key Decisions/Reviews
Phases
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Capability Documents

• Initial Capabilities Document (ICD)
• Identifies capability gap or other deficiency
• Describes evaluation of material approaches
• Not updated once approved

• Capability Development Document (CDD)
• Identifies operational performance attributes of
  proposed system
• System specific, applies to single increment (in
  an evolutionary program)
• Updated or rewritten for subsequent increments

• Capability Production Document (CPD)
• Identifies production attributes for a single
  increment of a program
• Prepared during System Development and
  Demonstration
• Rewritten for each increment in an evolutionary
  program

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AFSPC Partnerships

• Air Force Weather
• Work with AFSPC to define Army and AF space based
  environmental sensing requirements
• Provides weather support to AFSPC operations
• NOAA
• Operates Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
  satellites
• Partner on acquisition of NPOESS 50/50 cost
  share
• Provide critical space environmental sensing
  capabilities to support AFSPC operations
• Example space environmental sensors on GOES

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Summary

• DoD requirement and use of data
• AF Planning, Requirements and Acquisition process
• AFSPC Partnerships