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While the space mission and some billets transferred from JFCC GSI to JFCC SPACE, the leadership and HQ location for JFCC GSI remained the same as it was for JFCC SGS. JFCC SPACE is headquartered at Vandenberg AFB, CA. Its first and current commander is Air Force Maj Gen William L. Shelton. MG Shelton, who is also commander of 14 AF, was ...
The JFCC IMD will conduct operational and tactical level planning and day-to-day employment of assigned and attached missile defense forces for USSTRATCOM integrated missile defense operations, to include integrated missile defense planning and operational support responsibilities with other combatant commands, the Missile Defense Agency and ...
The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a process “to determine what the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security strategy should be.” [1] NPRs are the primary document for determining U.S. strategy for nuclear weapons and it outlines an overview of U.S. nuclear capabilities, changes to current stockpiles and capabilities, plans for deterrence, and plans for arms control policy with other nations.
The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) from foreign adversaries, including Russia and ...
Throughout its history, it has drawn from important contributions from many different organizations stretching back to World War II. Providing national leadership with a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear forces, General George Butler , in establishing the new command, borrowed from the work of General Curtis LeMay , an early ...
The Space Development Agency (SDA) was established in 2019 by Mike Griffin with his appointment to Under Secretary of Defense (R&E) by President Donald Trump. [8] Griffin was a long time advocate for low Earth orbit constellations to eliminate U.S. vulnerability to ballistic missiles with his work on space-based interceptors for the Strategic Defense Initiative and Brilliant Pebbles in the 1980s.
U.S. Space Command has four "space truths" that provide the foundation for its vision and operations: [9] Space is a vital interest that is integral to the American way of life and national security. Space superiority enables the Joint Force to rapidly transition from competition to conflict and prevail in a global, all-domain fight.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks on July 28 that for the first time will cover "extended deterrence", a term used to ...