![]() ![]() How are you thinking about the opportunities and challenges that present themselves when combining offensive and defensive fires? That’s what we’re experimenting with, whether it’s an platform, a communications platform, or a platform that might have some effectors on it. The second is the different payloads that would go on those high-altitude platforms. First, tactically responsive capabilities that will be Army controlled, used by the for persistence and long-duration as we’re seeing from the Zephyr and from high-altitude balloons.Īrmy Futures Command has taken an interest in the Zephyr drone. Whether it’s a high-altitude balloon or the solar-powered UAV Zephyr that’s been flying around, there are a couple of things that will help us out. In the high-altitude realm, what is the Army exploring that appears promising? ![]() And it is showing the value of Space and Missile Defense Command as an Army service component that is used to serving multiple combatant commands. It has shown us the importance of being able to integrate and coordinate across combatant commands, from Space Command to. It has shown us the value of intelligence support to space operations. What have you learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine? How have those lessons shaped impending decisions or changes within your command? But also it showed us the changes we made and. ![]() Donald Brooks,, and his team were able to execute that within weeks’ notice and again demonstrated readiness by the 1st Space Brigade soldiers, superb readiness, to respond. Literally, we were moving soldiers from one theater to the other from the United States into Europe, and Col. We had many moving pieces within 1st Space Brigade, not just within the active duty units but also within our Reserve and our National Guard, and that’s a combination of space control planning teams that supported it as well as our Army space support teams. We have learned through the Russia-Ukraine conflict particularly just how flexible and agile - or how our changes to 1st Space Brigade have made us very agile and flexible to respond to requests and SPACECOM requests for 1st Space Brigade forces. Mai’s leadership, did a fantastic job managing that almost day-by-day process to make sure funding was tracked and make sure they ended up in the right pots of money. Imagine the budget folks working across a calendar year with a CR, different funding streams, different budgets, no money - very, very difficult. Then there’s the funding transfer aspects of it, exacerbated by the. Space Command boss, did not lose any mission capability for the critical 24/7 mission we do. You can see how in this whole process we really tried to hit all the major elements because at the start of this entire process was the commitment by us to ensure Gen. The Space Force and its Guardians started going to the Signal School at Fort Gordon, Georgia, to get the training they needed that we teach in the institutional Army. Dennis Williams has done a fantastic job doing that over the course of about the last year and a half. He has worked with both the Army staff and the Space Force staff on unique Army equipment of the brigade - some nonstandard equipment - then transfer that from an Army system over to a new supply system and new supply processes in the Space Force. Dennis Williams, the G-4 for Space and Missile Defense Command, has spearheaded all of the logistics work, the logistics transfers of equipment between the Army and the Space Force. You just don’t go snap a light switch and all the equipment magically transfers over, so Col. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command. ![]()
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